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Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 22 hours ago by MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 24 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Minority report

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Minority report had a specialist review the footage and present the case to ~~three~~ two witnesses who teleconferenced in and ~~approved the arrest~~ witnessed the investigation before sending in the troops.

So this is not that dystopian cautionary tale. It's worse.

Edit: re-watched the intro. The witnesses watched, but the police arrested the perp on their own accord. One of the witnesses is a judge though. So I guess it's a pretty well supervised process.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

I was making a dumb joke. The ai reported a minority...