An incident in which an AI gun detection system mistook a student’s bag of chips for a gun was partly human error, officials said Thursday.

The incident came Monday after Taki Allen, a Kenwood High School student, placed an empty bag of chips in his pocket. Minutes later, police officers arrived with guns drawn. Police ordered Allen to the ground before handcuffing him.

“The first thing I was wondering was, was I about to die? Because they had a gun pointed at me,” Allen told WBAL-TV 11 News on Monday. “I was scared.”

Kenwood’s AI gun detection system alerted school officials that someone with a gun was on campus. However, there was no gun.

Still, Baltimore County Superintendent Myriam Rogers said the software worked as designed — and the program needs human verification before prompti

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