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prepend ◴[] No.41897599[source]
My kids’ school added a new weapons scanner as kids walk in the door. It’s powered by “AI.” They trust the AI quite a bit.

However, the AI identifies the school issued Lenovo laptops as weapons. So every kid was flagged. Rather than stopping using such a stupid tool, they just have the kids remove their laptops before going through the scanner.

I expect not smart enough people are buying “AI” products and trusting them to do the things they want them to do, but don’t work.

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willvarfar ◴[] No.41901135[source]
Do you think it stupid to scan kids for weapons, or stupid to think that a metal detector will find weapons?
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1. ipaddr ◴[] No.41901336[source]
I think it's overboard to scan for weapons at all school but very important to scan at some schools.