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School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon (arstechnica.com)
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The injured teenage survivor of a January 2025 shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee high school recently sued the manufacturer of an “AI gun detection” system that failed to detect the handgun that left two dead, including the shooter.

According to the lawsuit, which was filed in Davidson County court last month, the security company Omnilert either knew or should have known that there were “significant operational limitations in its gun detection system that could result in detection failures during actual emergencies, including limitations based on camera placement, proximity of the weapon to camera sensors, camera angle, lighting, and weapon visibility.”

Omnilert cofounder Ara Bagdasarian declined Ars’ invitation to answer questions about the lawsuit. System Integrations, the other defendant in the case, which resold the Omnilert system, also did not respond to Ars’ request for comment.

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[–] Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

We do have basic background checks on most purchases.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Fun thing about background checks they are only done once for the purchase.

Then after the fact doesn't matter if they lose their fucking shit and go mental. We checked their background! They where good at the time!

Background checks are fundamentally flawed from literally every possiable angle when your talking about a purchase of something that doesn't have a time limit.

Unless your doing annual background and mental checks it's literally just security theater. Better then literally nothing. But that's a low fucking bar.

[–] greasewizard@slrpnk.net 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Most, but not all