‘Are They Going to Kill Me?’: Black Teen Handcuffed at Gunpoint after AI System Mistakes Bag of Doritos for Handgun and Calls Police to High School
An artificial intelligence detector mistook a bag of chips that a 16-year-old boy was carrying for a weapon, triggering a false alert that called police and landed him in handcuffs. Taki Allen, a student at Kenwood High School in Baltimore, Maryland, told local news outlets that he was sitting with his friends, eating a bag…
