A Baltimore high school student was handcuffed and searched after an artificial intelligence gun detection system falsely flagged his bag of Doritos as a weapon. The incident, which unfolded at Kenwood High School, has raised serious questions about the accuracy and safety of AI surveillance in schools. Authorities later confirmed that the student was unarmed, while the school apologized for the distress caused to those involved.
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Police Confrontation Over False Alert
Seventeen-year-old Taki Allen was sitting outside Kenwood High School with friends on Monday night, casually eating chips, when armed police suddenly approached. “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 WBAL-TV 11 News. Officers then handcuffed and searched him, finding no weapon. Only afterward did they show him an image captured by the AI system, the one that had triggered the alert.
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Doritos Bag Mistaken for Weapon
According to Allen, the AI system mistook his snack bag for a firearm based on the way he was holding it. “I was just holding a Doritos bag, it was two hands and one finger out, and they said it looked like a gun,” he said. The incident highlights a growing debate about the reliability of AI surveillance technologies being used to detect weapons in public spaces, particularly in schools. Critics argue that such systems can misinterpret harmless movements and lead to dangerous confrontations…