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AI-powered weapons scanners used in NYC subway found zero guns in one month test (apnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

With how trigger happy police are, the false positives would lead to more deaths than they prevent. And police would claim it's justified because the machine told them so.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Facial recognition confirmed he was a criminal and the scanner confirmed he had a gun! Of course we opened fire instantly. How could we have known it was just some guy with a water bottle?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

We used advanced colorimetry to determine he was a criminal!