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Schools Using AI to Send Police to Students' Homes
Buy-n-Shoot NewsSchools are employing dubious AI-powered software to accuse teenagers of wanting to harm themselves — with often chaotic and deeply problematic results. As the New York Times reports, the software, which is being installed on high school students' school-issued devices, tracks every word that's being typed on it. An algorithm then analyzes the language for evidence of teenagers wanting to harm themselves. Unsurprisingly, the software can get it fatally wrong by woefully misinterpreting what was being typed. A 17-year-old in Neosho, Missouri, for instance, was woken up by the police in the middle of the night. As it turns […]
