An expensive AI gun detection system appears to have been a massive waste of money after it failed to detect the weapon used in a school shooting. The year-old gunman shot and killed one year-old classmate and wounded another before turning the gun on himself, which he did not survive.
Omnilert's technology used the school's security cameras and added AI that was supposed to detect hidden weapons. It didn't recognize the shooter's gun, NBC notes, in a news conference after the massacre , Metro Nashville Public Schools chief technology and communications officer Sean Braisted pointed out that the Omnilert system did activate when police entered with their own weapons.
In a statement to NBC , Omnilert echoed Braisted's comments about the system's cameras failing to find the gun in question. MNPS superintendent Adrienne Battle also seemed to defend the expensive and apparently not watertight weapon detection software. While these school and company officials work overtime to defend their wasteful investment in the sort of AI-powered technology that has for years now been known to fail , two teenagers are dead in the latest tragic school shooting.
Slapping AI on top of shoddy weapon scanners doesn't make them work β and in this case, the false sense of security they provide ended in tragedy. As year-old George Levin finished up a Sunday dinner with his mother and sister, two men left a nearby apartment with duct tape, prosecutors said, and entered the Norwood Park home after reportedly arranging a meetup with Levin online.
But in the span of about half an hour, prosecutors allege, the men brutally attacked Levin, robbed him and left him tied up in his basement, where he Police are looking for help to arrest the three suspects allegedly involved in an armed robbery at a residence in the block of NE 29th Place.
