On October 26, a 16-year-old high school student in Maryland was surrounded by police after a pack of potatoes in his pocket was misjudged as a gun by the school's AI monitoring system.

According to Fox News, the high school student named Tacky Allen was waiting in the school car and put an empty potato package bag into his pocket.But not long after, several police officers suddenly appeared to surround him, ordering him to lie down and put on his bracelets.

A law enforcement recording video released by the Police Department shows that the police discovered that the school's real-time monitoring artificial intelligence security system misjudged a potato packaging bag as a gun, which triggered law enforcement actions.

Source: Fox News

Allen recalled, ¡°There were probably eight police cars coming to us. They took a gun and came to me and shouted, ¡®Lack on the ground.¡¯I raised my hands and thought, ¡®What happened?¡¯¡± Then the police let him kneel down and put a bracelet on him.

According to the BBC, the police station said that the police acted according to the information received at present and made a proportionate response. Afterwards, it was confirmed that the misunderstanding was caused by the school AI monitoring system.

The system detected suspected gun images at that time. Although the manual censors had been updated to "no threat", the principal did not notice the information and notified the campus security team, which eventually led to the police being dispatched.

Omnilert, the company that provides surveillance systems, apologized, expressing deep regret for the incident, but the process of strong adjustment works as designed, but real-world gun detection is quite chaotic, and misinformation is inevitable.

Source: BBC Fox News.