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School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon (arstechnica.com)
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The injured teenage survivor of a January 2025 shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee high school recently sued the manufacturer of an “AI gun detection” system that failed to detect the handgun that left two dead, including the shooter.

According to the lawsuit, which was filed in Davidson County court last month, the security company Omnilert either knew or should have known that there were “significant operational limitations in its gun detection system that could result in detection failures during actual emergencies, including limitations based on camera placement, proximity of the weapon to camera sensors, camera angle, lighting, and weapon visibility.”

Omnilert cofounder Ara Bagdasarian declined Ars’ invitation to answer questions about the lawsuit. System Integrations, the other defendant in the case, which resold the Omnilert system, also did not respond to Ars’ request for comment.

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[–] howdy@lemmy.ml 46 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Using AI to stop school shootings it the type of idiot idea Sasha Baron Cohen would get a tech bro to unironically support. So much news these days feels like black comedy or satire

[–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 hours ago

Not quite right. These types of ideas have existed for quite some time and have been used many many times in warfare by US military+allies. This was one of the core things that necessiated a company like palantir.

The only caveat is that, historically when these systems failed, it usually killed brown people which nobody really care about. Take the example of school bombing in iran or gaza genocide.

The problem is that the tolerance for error in warfare is always very high, anything can be written as "collatoral". But even a small error (like one kid dying) is too much inside a state.

That's why palantir in non military settings is disasterous.

TLDR: AI did better than expected, the problem was that, a white kid in USA died rather than a brown one in a third world country.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago

Ive been hearing SBC having been acting weird politically recently, hes apparently a very pro-zionist.