{"id":62189,"date":"2025-10-25T09:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62189"},"modified":"2025-10-25T11:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:44:20","slug":"baltimore-ai-identifies-bag-of-chips-as-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62189","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore: AI identifies bag of Doritos in school as a gun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cgjdlx92lylo\">Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes [Doritos chip bag] for gun in US<\/a> by Liv McMahon &amp; Imran Rahman-Jones (\u201cA US teenager was handcuffed by armed police after an artificial intelligence (AI) system mistakenly said he was carrying a gun &#8211; when really he was holding a packet of crisps. \u2018Police showed up, like eight cop cars, and then they all came out with guns pointed at me talking about getting on the ground,\u2019 16-year-old Baltimore pupil Taki Allen told local outlet WMAR-2 News. Baltimore County Police Department said their officers \u2018responded appropriately and proportionally based on the information provided at the time\u2019. It said the AI alert was sent to human reviewers who found no threat &#8211; but the principal missed this and contacted the school&#8217;s safety team, who ultimately called the police.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes [Doritos chip bag] for gun in US by Liv McMahon &amp; Imran Rahman-Jones (\u201cA US teenager was handcuffed by armed police after an artificial intelligence (AI) system mistakenly said he was carrying &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62200,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62189\/revisions\/62200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}