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Clark County School District recently signed a $5 million contract with a different AI “Weapon Detection System”. There is no way any of them are real is there?
by idontwantthis 2y ago
Clark County School District recently signed a $5 million contract with a different AI “Weapon Detection System”. There is no way any of them are real is there?
Edit: CCSD uses Remark. Maybe their AI actually knows what a person walking with a gun somewhere on their body looks like in all situations and for all skin colors.
- pavel_lishin 2y agoSeems like it would cost less than $5m to independently test this unit before purchase.
- Aeolun 2y agoThere’s definitely some form of filtering you can apply to metal detector results to make a relatively good guess on whether it’s a false positive or not. Just need to train it with a variety of hidden and unhidden items. I kinda like the idea of a team of test people hiding their weapons everywhere and then taking multiple trips through the thing just to teach it.
- idontwantthis 2y agoIt’s not a metal detector it’s optical. What does a person with a pistol strapped to their inner thigh walk like? Or a knife? There is no possible way to detect that visually.
- mlyle 2y ago> There is no possible way to detect that visually. Well, let's not go that far. Security personnel definitely detect people carrying weapons by gait and the way their clothing hangs. Certainly computers could help do the same. Can it ever be reliable enough? Ehh, I doubt it.
- shakna 2y agoAnd will that disproportionately flag against the disabled? Like people who drag a leg, use walking sticks and frames, etc? Have an insulin pump under the clothing?
- mlyle 2y agoUnfortunately, security screening already pays disproportional attention to the disabled. E.g., we are talking about this in a thread about metal detectors, which will flag on most of these people.