Artificial intelligence used to detect guns at schools
At around midday on Tuesday, May 24 an 18-year-old shooter walked into an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas and shot and killed 21 people including 19 children. It is the second worst mass school shooting in U.S. history.
There have been 30 mass shootings at K-12 schools so far in 2022.
“I am sick and tired of it,” a visibly outraged President Joe Biden said in a televised national address. “Why are we willing to live with this carnage? Why do we keep letting this happen?”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said, “our kids are living in fear every single time they step foot in a classroom because they think they’re going to be next. … As the kids run for their lives, we do nothing.”
While lawmakers argue about gun control reform, at least one school is being proactive.
Oxford High School near Detroit, Michigan is piloting a gun detection program with ZeroEyes, a Philadelphia company that uses AI to spot weapons from potential mass shooters. It trained its AI on hundreds of thousands of proprietary images and videos.
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