Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes chip bag for gun in Baltimore (bbc.com)

Extensive previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684934 (433 comments)

These stories always surprise me.

Somehow the culprit is AI, yet grown men handcuff a child when there is no gun.

The bar for becoming a cop in the US must be really low.

  Mr Allen said: "I don't think no chip bag should be mistaken for a gun at all."

Mr. Allen is right. My UniFi camera system regularly detects cars when I play Mario Kart World. I cannot fathom summoning police with an accuracy rate that low and no human in the loop. Absolutely wild.

Don't make tap the sign: "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION"

Pretty sure AI detected a “shape” in a pocket that was created by a chip bag.

That is quite a bit different then “AI mistakes chip bag for a gun”