A security company that provides AI weapons scanners to schools is facing new doubts about its technology after a student was assaulted with a knife that the $3.7 million system failed to identify.
Last Halloween, Ehni Ler Htoo was strolling in the corridor of his school in Utica, New York, when another student approached him and attacked him with a knife.
The victim’s lawyer told BBC that the 18-year-old received many stab wounds to his head, neck, face, shoulder, back, and hand.
Despite a multimillion-dollar weapons detection system built by a company called Evolv Technology, the knife used in the attack was carried inside Proctor High School.
Evolv claims that its scanner “combines powerful sensor technology with proven artificial intelligence” to detect weapons rather than just detecting metal. The system issues an alert when it discovers a concealed weapon, such as knives, bombs, or weapons.
It previously promised that its scanners might aid in the creation of “weapons-free zones” and has openly
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