{"id":9485,"date":"2025-10-26T01:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/high-schools-ai-security-system-confuses-doritos-bag-for-a-possible-firearm\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T01:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:35:34","slug":"high-schools-ai-security-system-confuses-doritos-bag-for-a-possible-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/high-schools-ai-security-system-confuses-doritos-bag-for-a-possible-firearm\/","title":{"rendered":"High school\u2019s AI security system confuses Doritos bag for a possible firearm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A high school student in Baltimore County, Maryland was reportedly handcuffed and searched after an AI security system flagged his bag of chips as a possible firearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taki Allen, a student at Kenwood High School, told CNN affiliate WBAL, &ldquo;I was just holding a Doritos bag &mdash; it was two hands and one finger out, and they said it looked like a gun.&rdquo; But as a result, Allen said, &ldquo;They made me get on my knees, put my hands behind my back, and cuffed me.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement shared with parents, Principal Katie Smith said the school&rsquo;s security department had reviewed and canceled a gun detection alert, while Smith (who didn&rsquo;t immediately realize the alert had been canceled) reported the situation to the school resource officer, who called the local police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Omnilert, the company that operates the AI gun detection system, told CNN, &ldquo;We regret that this incident occurred and wish to convey our concern to the student and the wider community affected by the events that followed.&rdquo; Nonetheless, Omnilert said &ldquo;the process functioned as intended.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>High school&rsquo;s AI security system confuses Doritos bag for a possible firearm<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high school student in Baltimore County, Maryland was reportedly handcuffed and searched after an AI security system flagged his bag of chips as a possible firearm. Taki Allen, a student at Kenwood High School, told CNN affiliate WBAL, &ldquo;I was just holding a Doritos bag &mdash; it was two hands and one finger out,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/high-schools-ai-security-system-confuses-doritos-bag-for-a-possible-firearm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;High school\u2019s AI security system confuses Doritos bag for a possible firearm&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}