Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
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#2"rapid human verification." at gunpoint. The Torment Nexus has nothing on these AI startups.
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#3>Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended,” saying its purpose is to “prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification.”
It's ok everyone, you're safer now that police are pointing a gun at you, because of a bag of chips ... just to be safe.
/s
Absolutely ridiculous. We're living "computer said you did it, prove otherwise, at gunpoint".
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#4Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended,” saying its purpose is to “prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification.”
prioritize your own safety by not attending any location fitted with such a system, or deemed to be such a dangerous environment that such a system is desired.
the AI "swatted" someone.
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#5>Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended,” saying its purpose is to “prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification.” It's ok everyone, you're safer now that police are pointing a gun at you, because of a bag of chips ... just to be safe. /s Absolutely ridiculous. We're living "computer said you did it, prove otherwise, at gunpoint".
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Re: Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
#6Memories of Jean Charles de Menezes come to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Jean_Charles_de_Men...
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#7Walking through TSA scanners, I always get that unnerving feeling I will get pulled aside. 50% of the time they flag my cargo pants because of the zipper pockets - There is nothing in them but the scanner doesn't like them.
Now we get the privilege of walking by AI security cameras placed in random locations, hoping they don't flag us.
There's a ton of money to be made with this kind of global frisking, so lots of pressure to roll out more and more systems.
How does this not spiral out of control?
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#8This is only the beginning of AI-hallucinated policing. Not a good start, and I don't think it's going to end well for citizens.
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#9>> Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended,” saying its purpose is to “prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification.”
No. If you're investigating someone and have existing reason to believe they are armed then this kind of false positive might be prioritizing safety. But in a general surveillance of a public place, IMHO you need to prioritize accuracy since false positives are very bad. This kid was one itchy trigger-pull away from death over nothing - that's not erring on the side of safety. You don't have to catch every criminal by putting everyone under a microscope, you should be catching the blatantly obvious ones at scale though.
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#10>the system “functioned as intended,”
Behold - a real life example of a "Not a hotdog" system, except this one is gun / not-a-gun.
Except the fictional one from the series was more accurate...