With a hundred and ten cornets right behind
The AI thought about it long and hard
calling up the national guard
Cause of the horns of ev'ry shape and kind.
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There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons
Thundering, thundering all along the way.
Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons,
And Swarming SWAT Teams Goons so they say
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There were cross fires and blown tires
And reporters from the local news
Clarinets of ev'ry size
And trumpeters who'd improvise
And video games that went pew-pew!
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Why are there cameras in schools? Why are they looking for guns? Why are they using AI to do it?
Could this not all be avoided by not letting kids have guns or am i missing the point?
Kids are already not allowed to have guns.
I hate camera proliferation but, judging by the YouTube plenty of bodycam footage, it does work.
You won't likely find the numbers you want because the very nature of the problem is that cameras make visible something that wasn't.
If not even the children can play any more however they want, for fear that automated surveillance would identify them as "pretending to have a weapon", which can result in punishment, I believe that such a society has serious problems for which it certainly did not find the right solution. I would not want for myself or for my children to live in such a place.
Edit: I don't know about these specific lines, but this script was co-written by the great and recently deceased Tom Stoppard
Unless it's completely clear that it's not a gun, the reviewer is essentially always going to pull the alarm. The risk of a false alarm is going to be seen as minimal, while the risk of a false negative is catastrophic.
False alarm makes the news for now because it's novel, we all go "What the hell, guys?" and life goes on.
Nobody wants to end up sitting in front of a prosecutor, the media, etc explaining why they chose not to pull the alarm, when the AI _clearly_ identified the gun, and instead chose to let all those kids die.
The only way this gets fixed is if there are consequences at every level for false positives.
In this case, the kid was holding the clarinet like a weapon, and though we have not seen the actual video, the descriptions of it make it sound like overall resolution was poor.
The alternative to the false positive here, is to not report anything that you cannot be 110% certain of, which means that you're likely to miss some true positives.
Overall this situation mostly reads like everything worked as intended, and the press turned it into more than it needed to be. School shooting are a real thing, there is plenty of evidence of that. Weapons detection has become a necessary component of a school safety strategy. For many reasons, it is not practical to have personnel at the school, or within the district, act as the first-pass reviewer of AI detections of weapons.
Do we really want consequences for false positives? If a kid is smoking a cigarette in the bathroom and the smoke detector goes off, the school should evacuate. The Smoke Alarm went off. No principal is going to sign off on the assumption that "Timmy is smoking, it's not a real fire". The principal shouldn't be punished for responding to the alarm. Timmy...probably should get reprimanded, but that feels off-metaphor.
In the example we are given, Timmy did nothing wrong. Having a clarinet is not contraband, and he should not be punished. The admin who called a lockdown did nothing wrong, as they were responding to the system in the way they were trained to use it. This is all in the name of safety, where things are done in 'an abundance of caution'.
>"It's not my fault the cops shot the kid, the system said it was a gun."
No, its the cop's fault. The cop hasn't been trained to use the AI security system, and is instead given their own SOP for assessing threats.
For every false alarm you need to pay the salaries that were wasted and the snacks and therapists for the kids.
Likewise for every missed gun hazard pay for teachers and therapists for kids.
If they aren’t confident enough to back a service that has such a mental impact on failure they should not be selling it.
ZeroEyes said that trained employees review alerts before they are sent and that its software can make a lifesaving difference in averting mass shootings by alerting law enforcement to weapons on campus within seconds. At Lawton Chiles, the student flagged by ZeroEyes was holding his musical instrument like a rifle, co-founder Sam Alaimo told The Washington Post. “We don’t think we made an error, nor does the school,” Alaimo said. “That was better to dispatch [police] than not dispatch.”
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I'm not sure how to apply that to this situation, but it is one every school should think about when students try things.
If I think of my school time, I would believe even the fact that a bomb threat would be an annoyance to teachers would a be sufficient reason (of course, in the schools of the country where I live there were other methods than bomb threats to be an annoyance to teachers).
Solution is to make school non mandatory!
(The worlds laziest lit review) https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=school+resource+office+shoots...
Edit: I can't find it now but there is a body cam video of a Colorado school shooting where this almost happened. It wasn't due to an AI mixup but the school police was armed and I believe fired at one of the bad guys, but as the local PD responded he almost got shot because of the confusion: "school shooting, respond, guy with a gun"
If the technology is even somewhat capable of detecting actual guns, it will probably save far more lives in the long run.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annunciation_Catholic_Church_s...
So not even the most conservative justices buy into the idea that Americans have a right to bear arms everywhere.
A man saw a snappy two-sentence title. He was mildly annoyed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Harry_Stanley
On 22 September 1999, Stanley was returning home from the Alexandra Pub in South Hackney carrying, in a plastic bag, a table leg that had been repaired by his brother earlier that day. Someone had phoned the police to report "an Irishman with a gun wrapped in a bag".[2]
Awesome, they got away with unlawfully killing a man.
What a joke.
AI is often awful, but I'm giving it a pass on this one.
Once you can make a mistake and be okay, but you soon you become "the little boy who cried wolf", and people don't move to safety when there is a real issue!
Of course the co-founder of the company that made the error would say that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684934 (the doritos gun)
If it's actually a mental health crisis, then how do we solve that one? Especially with what the Republicans are doing right now?
uninvited and unwanted federal troops are roaming around cities against the wishes of state governors
so seems the US has the worst of both worlds: unqualified morons owning assault weapons, plus the tyranny
- They have knife stabbings in China. (Yes. A gun is more lethal.)
- A bad guy can still get a gun. (Yes.)
- Hand guns are more dangerous than rifles. (This means let's reduce both.)
- The gun doesn't kill people. People kill people. (This means let's reduce how many people have guns.)
- Mass shootings aren't the majority of gun deaths. (Let's reduce the total gun deaths and mass shootings then.)
Come up with as many ridiculous retorts as you like. If you had reduced the total number of guns, most of the shootings could not have happened.
On the flip side, I feel like the two parties see things differently: One party is mostly about prevention, while the other side is predominantly about punishment.
> If it's actually a mental health crisis,
That's the scapegoat. It's an easy scapegoat because it blames others. And others are easy to hate. They aren't us. "They" are others. Yes, mental health is an issue, but it's not so much higher than in other nations to explain the much higher rate. It's a scapegoat because it's easy to say, "Wow, no normal person would do that, so they must be crazy." That sounds reasonable if you don't think about it for a moment.
And of course there are policy wonks who would make gun ownership a human rights issue even though its fundamentally unsafe to have such free gun ownership.
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