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A 17-year-old was handcuffed at gunpoint after an AI camera mistook a Doritos bag for a gun.

A grandmother spent 5 months in jail due to a facial recognition error.

These cases reveal how police treat AI predictions as facts rather than probabilities.
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How AI can lead to false arrests and wrongful convictions

Danger arises when law enforcement believes that AI models are retrieving certainties rather than generating likelihoods.
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Simplicator
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I mean it’s straight-up the plot of Terry Gilliam’s horror sci-fi dystopia “Brazil.”
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Jay Peach
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Well, AI, with an IQ of about 80, is several standard deviations from the intelligence of “police officers”. After all, the average cop would have failed third grade except for No Child Left Behind, a Bush fiasco, if I’m not mistaken.
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