NYC Subway AI Weapons Scanners Yield High False Positive Rate and Detect No Guns in Month-Long Pilot Test
October 23, 2024
NYC implemented an AI enabled weapons scanner for a month-long pilot with limited success. Despite not finding any weapons during the September 2024 testing phase, there were 118 false positives in which a person was searched under suspicion of carrying a weapon with no actual gun detections.
- Alleged deployer
- new-york-city-government
- Alleged developer
- evolv-technology
- Alleged harmed parties
- new-york-city-subway-riders
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