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How can a journalist just write that without pushing back at all?
Because in that field, doing that is pretty much committing career suicide, especially if you do it too early in your career.
Which considering it was one of the local news stations that covered it, I'd bet you the journalist was either thinking nothing at all, or was telling themselves to not pushback on it because they don't have enough connections to eat the shit that'll get served to them if they do.
We will end crime in the next 6 months using this technology btw
can't have crime if you jail everyone and jail crimes get only internal hearings 
Can't be any criminals on the streets if everyone is in prison
or shot to death
Systems like this have been killing people overseas for years. Now shit is coming home to the imperial core.
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Where's my billions?
Suck up to some small town sheriffs and you have a deal.
You'll never guess what the student looked like. Just a coincidence, I'm sure. 
claimed the system “functioned as intended,” saying its purpose is to “prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification.”
Prioritizing public safety by sending a swarm of trigger happy hogs with guns drawn at a random kid. Very cool future we've found ourselves in! 
Minority Report but literal.
If this is the intended function, they should not be using it
AI version of George Zimmerman. This was almost a Trayvon Martin incident with the bag of skittles and can of Arizona Tea. Crazy. Absolutely fucked up. I hate AI.
"Functioned as intended."
So the purpose if the system is to terrorize children, with the not so small chance that the pigs will shoot the kids, all based on hallucinations from an inscrutable program.
I thought this had to be a bit but clicked through the sources and it seems it’s actually real? Can’t believe the world has already gotten to the point where people get swatted by hallucinating AI. The oppressive cyberpunk surveillance state is here and boy is it dogshit
bad country (china, nk, cuba, etc. take your pick) is a surveillance state, unlike the land of the free where AI cameras will sick armed maniacs on you for eating a bag of chips
Me who just stored 12 bags of doritoes in the kitchen... 
This is a stick up I've got a bag of dotitos give me all your guns
Doritos will use this in an ad.
Unfortunately, "dangerously cheesy" is already trademarked by Cheetos
Doritos: They bring the heat!
holy fuck lmaooooooooooooooooooooo
We have officially entered the Cool Ranch Zone
God dammit that's a good one
I guess there's not enough school shootings from organic murderers so they're industrializing it with cops going on murder sprees because their tickle-me-elmo-bot chip implant mistake school text books as IEDs
There's mass shooters right now uploading their manifesto to youtube and are talking to undercover feds but no, let's do all this instead.
prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification
The “rapid human verification”:
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
"working as intended"
THRVTH NVKE
The acorn has been dethroned .
The AI company should be sued for tramatic emotional distress.
but claimed the system “functioned as intended,”
It just works!
Sir he’s too cheesy
Dark future where commercials for Doritos are news stories about people being almost killed by cops.
Taki Allen was hanging out with friends after football practice on October 20 when multiple police cars suddenly pulled up.
Not just Doritos, apparently