US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/baltimore-student-ai-gun-detection-system-doritos

US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun

Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspicious

Guardian staff
Fri 24 Oct 2025 07.47 EDT

An artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.

Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a snack when police officers with guns approached him.

At first, I didn’t know where they were going until they started walking toward me with guns, talking about, ‘Get on the ground,’ and I was like, ‘What?’” Allen told the WBAL-TV 11 News television station.

Allen said they made him get on his knees, handcuffed and searched him – finding nothing. They then showed him a copy of the picture that had triggered the alert.

“I was just holding a Doritos bag – it was two hands and one finger out, and they
I was just holding a Doritos bag – it was two hands and one finger out, and they said it looked like a gun,” Allen said.

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(At least the kid is still breathing…

https://www.theroot.com/how-does-a-cop-mistake-a-miscellaneous-object-for-a-gun-1849924433

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