AI weapon detection system at Antioch High School failed to detect gun in Nashville shooting
AI weapon detection system at Antioch High School failed to detect gun in Nashville shooting
AI Weapon Detector is a thing? What the heck?
They pay $10.000/month for:
def ai_weapon_detector(img):
return False
Whoa there, it's not quite that simple!
You forgot this bit:
def suspect_search_required()
if (skin_tone.luminance < 0.5)
return random() < 0.1
Apparently not.
I thought police in schools would make us safe.... whoops
I thought cameras in school would make us safe.... whoops
I thought metal detectors in school would make us safe.... whoops
I thought AI gun detectors in school would make us safe.... whoops
What's next? Maybe start strip searching students on the way in? We keep getting more and more strict and the shootings keep happening.
You forgot
I thought "official" guns in school would make us safe.... whoops
Maybe start strip searching students
They're already eager to look at kids' genitals in fear of them being trans, so don't give them ideas
Probably they'll require you to install spyware on your phone "to make you safe"
I feel like this article is discrediting AI to shift blame away from the failure of law enforcement and governing bodies, and place it on AI. It literally says in the article it didn't work because the shooter didn't take out his weapon or use it in view of cameras, but when the cops came and drew their weapons it immediately worked. So it sounds like the AI works fine and we want to blame something other than bad policies for school shootings...
The AI doesn't work fine if it can only tell you there's a shooting while a shooting is taking place. It's a waste of resources and on its face is stupid and useless. It might be working as intended, it might be working to its capabilities. But that doesn't mean it should be there in the first place.
I don't blame the AI for not doing better here. I blame it for being snake oil and I blame those in charge for buying it and I blame society for constantly creating this fucking scenario of doing anything but what is needed.
The basic concept isn't a bad idea, assuming it works and you already have the cameras. If it ran locally at a negligible cost, I'd say it would be a potentially useful tool. But even then, it wouldn't solve the problems, just help identify them more quickly, especially in situations where a gun is in the school but isn't being fired yet. Less useful for an active shooter, more useful for spotting someone flashing a gun, brandishing, showing off to their friends, or even selling.
It would be like a smoke detector, good to have but only as part of a larger plan, and also not something you should be dumping a ton of money into.
Admittedly not having read the article but I think the idea for the AI is not really to stop or alert anyone to an active school shooting. Maybe it could give a little heads up depending on how the shooter starts.
I think the bigger idea is for it to pick up firearms a kid might flash or have brought in to show off or otherwise brandish but not use at the time. That way you can intervene before a gun gets used but that's just my theory.
Agree on society though, it's very obvious the proliferation of firearms and ease of procuring one is a huge contributor to school shootings and gun violence in general. God forbid we try to rein that in. Let's just treat guns like cars. I have to get a license to drive a car because of how easy it is to kill myself or others with an automobile. When I turn 18 I can go buy an AR-15 with a simple run through a fed background check - maybe not even that, depending on the state and where you buy it - and waltz out the same day with a tool specifically made to kill people. No training, no oversight, no lessons just here's a tool to kill other humans and have fun!
How does that make any sense?
Big brother with a fake sense of security. Who would have guessed?
I'm personally shocked that an AI product over-represented its capabilities. Shocked.
Tragic that people have to suffer to learn this
The perp wasn't brown enough to trigger detection.
"Not a hotdog" levels of incompetence
It did make two different cancerous industries slightly rich, though.
The folks who made this a reality are happy to see your kids dead over a contract. Companies didn't do this, because companies don't do things.
Individuals did this.
I love how we're just cramming this unproven tech into everything with no regard for efficacy (never mind what might happen if it all gets away from us).
Oh, it's proven. To be ineffective.
Not AI, but similar: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/24/us/shotspotter-cities-choose-not-to-use/index.html
only 9% of ShotSpotter alerts in Chicago were actually gun-related crimes
Where.
The fuck.
Is the liability.
The AI shareholders should be on the hook for every wrongful death and injury that happened during this shooting.
I hope they eat their own dog food and get Luigi'd.
AI is just a buzzword, we don't have AI, it's just more complex software with decision making built-in.
WTF...
So what's the point of detecting the weapon after it's out and being used?
Money well spent!
idiots...
Literally will try anything and everything but gun control.
You got to understand: the gun lobby is strong, especially at the local level. The amount of money to elect someone locally is pennies compared to nationally.
Not only that but often these "solutions" like metal detectors have lobbies of their own.
Gun control doesn't make the line go up.
The only way we'll get gun control is if Luigi's start making a more common occurrence.
Plus it has Ai! Anything that has AI must be good. For lunch I’m getting a ham sandwich with extra AI.
On the bright side, if an executive order can undo an amendment, the next time a democratic president gets in this should be fun
You know, assuming we have elections
It make rich techbros richer and further the surveillance state, you know, very small government type stuff.
Faster emergency response.
That'll be great fun when it starts spitting out false positives and the coppers get called out several times a day because someone was carrying their pencil case in their hands rather than in their bags. The only reasonable solution there will obviously be to ban pencil cases.
Put the police station in the school. Kids should get used to living in the bipartisan police state anyways.
Well but you need to understand, it had "AI" in the name, and everything is made awesome with AI, so they had to go with it...