Veterans’ hospitals short on police guards have turned to a purported artificial intelligence-basedweapons scanner with advertised features that offered an artificial sense of security compared to the actual capabilities of conventional metal detectors that cost about 25 times less, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to pay a subscription — now valued at $372,000 — for the Evolv Express system in Buffalo, New York, and has plans to roll out more machines.
Last week, the department signed a contract worth up to $1 million for the installation of a different AI weapon-detection tool with similar advertising, federal databases and contracting papers show…