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Kansas wants to use AI to spot guns in schools. One major company won’t say how often the system fails

Schools have turned to AI to detect guns and prevent mass shootings, but concerns about reliability and false alarms persist.
Critics argue that investing in technology like ZeroEyes diverts money from addressing the human causes of violence.
Kansas lawmakers funded ZeroEyes-style tech with $10 million to boost school security efforts.

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If its >50% (that is it is just randomly works) I wouldn't want to announce that I am ripping off the government either.

precision and recall (and AUC) are like the major things that you measure when training an ai

This is a very Kansas headline

You want to help people so they don't feel murder is their best choice in life, and if they do, you need to stop the threat. Having a camera go 'someone might have a gun, I promise this isn't the 1000'th false positive' right as they start murdering people isn't helpful.
- This feels like when fire alarms go off at work. Literally, no one gives a shit. There are a few people who basically go "fuck yeah, I'm gonna go stand outside until someone collects me," but most just continue with whatever it was they were doing. This is not the attitude you want emergency services having towards reports of active shooters.

Anything but promoting homeschooling or arming teachers, amirite?
- Did you ask school teachers if they want to be armed?

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