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SN Technologies Reportedly Lied to a New York State School District about Its Facial and Weapon Detection Systems’ Performance

AI Incident Database · article · Dec 1, 2020 · UTC

SN Technologies allegedly misled Lockport City Schools about the performance of its AEGIS face and weapons detection systems, downplaying error rates for Black faces and weapon misidentification.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2020-01-02T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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