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James Bentley

Multiple police cars showed up to a school after surveillance system monitored by AI flagged a bag of Doritos as a gun: 'AI is not the best'

Packages of Doritos chips are displayed on a store shelf on April 23, 2025 in San Anselmo, California. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to phase out all artificial dyes from the food supply by the end of 2026. The Food and Drug Administration is directing the food industry to replace petroleum-based synthetic dyes with natural alternatives.

AI is slowly making its way into every facet of life, and that means more and more fields are being manned by machines that can't be held accountable. In many cases, AI going wrong is normally confined to a poor Google search or bad Photoshop, but on October 20, police showed up armed at a high school as a result of an AI miscalculation.

As reported by WMAR 2 News, multiple police cars showed up to a high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, to apprehend a student who AI flagged as having a gun (bodycam footage from ABC 7 Chicago).

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