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A 16-year-old was handcuffed because AI thought an empty Doritos bag was a gun.
There are countless examples of AI doing dumb stuff out there, but mistaking an empty bag of chips for a firearm might be a new peak in stupidity. Unfortunately, this is not some simple laughing matter. The incident triggered a “large response” from police who descended on a teen, guns drawn, while he was waiting outside of school to be picked up. Taki Allen told Baltimore’s WMAR-2 News:
“Police showed up, like eight cop cars, and then they all came out with guns pointed at me talking about getting on the ground. I was putting my hands up like, ‘what’s going on?’ He told me to get on my knees and arrested me and put me in cuffs.”
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