AI-powered weapons scanners used in NYC subway found zero guns in one month test
AI-powered weapons scanners used in NYC subway found zero guns in one month test
A pilot program testing AI-powered weapons scanners inside some New York City subway stations this summer did not detect any passengers with firearms — but falsely alerted more than 100 times.
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The article links an article from March '24 talking about the introduction of these devices that contains this part:
The scanner that Adams and police officials introduced during Thursday’s news conference in a lower Manhattan station came from Evolv, a publicly traded company that has been accused of doctoring the results of software testing to make its scanners appear more effective than they are.
So they could never be trusted but were still allowed to proceed.
Look, we can either look at facts and check the claims of that company that we're going to invest a lot of money into, or we can accept their bribe and move on. It's all about efficiency.