Student Handcuffed After School's AI System Mistakes a Bag of Chips for a Gun

An AI system "apparently mistook a high school student's bag of Doritos for a firearm," reports the Guardian, "and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed."Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a snack when police officers with guns approached him. "At first, I didn't know where they were going until they started walking toward me with guns, talking about, 'Get on the ground,' and I was like, 'What?'" Allen told the WBAL-TV 11 News television station. Allen said they made him get on his knees, handcuffed and searched him - finding nothing. They then showed him a copy of the picture that had triggered the alert. "I was just holding a Doritos bag - it was two hands and one finger out, and they said it looked like a gun," Allen said. Thanks to Slashdot reader Bruce66423 for sharing the article.

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