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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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[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Metal detectors in schools are dystopian and nobody who works in a school wants them.

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 5 points 1 hour ago

Metal detectors in schools are dystopian

Sounds like they fit right in in the country where children are regularly and routinely murdered while at school and society at large is ok with it.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 18 minutes ago (1 children)

AI is so much better and not dystopian 🙏

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

The detection processing is completely invisible. It's just a tool. How it's used is what determines if it's dystopian or not. Seeing the state the US is in, I'd argue the country itself is dystopian and this system is trying to somewhat protect people from that dystopia.