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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.

Do you think it stupid to scan kids for weapons, or stupid to think that a metal detector will find weapons?

I think it's stupid to have a country where guns are legal.

Guns are legal in almost every country - I think your problem is with countries that have almost no restriction on gun ownership. e.g. Here in the UK you can legally own a properly licensed rifle or shotgun and even a handgun in some places outside of Great Britain (e.g. Northern Ireland).

Just because something is technically legal, doesn't mean it's in any way common or part of UK culture to own a gun.

There hasn't been a school shooting in the UK for nearly 30 years. Handguns were banned after the last school shooting and there hasn't been one since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:School_shootings_in_t...

Although that fact is sometimes forgotten by schools who copy the US in having "active shooter drills" though. Modern schools sound utterly miserable.

Yet the murder rate was unaffected by the gun ban.

Yet the USA's intentional murder rate per 100k population is 6.383 while the UK's is 1.148 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...