A security company that provides schools with artificial intelligence (AI) powered weapon scanners is under scrutiny after a student was attacked with a knife that the US$3.7 million system failed to detect.
Last Halloween, 18 year old Ehni Ler Htoo was stabbed multiple times by a fellow student at Proctor High School in Utica, New York, despite the school having installed a weapons detection system from Evolv Technology.
Evolv Technology aims to replace traditional metal detectors with AI weapon scanners that utilise advanced sensor technology and AI to detect concealed weapons. The company claimed that its system is highly accurate and can help create “weapons-free zones.” However, a BBC investigation last year found that the system could not reliably detect large knives, missing 42% of them in 24 walk-throughs.
Despite these findings, Evolv Technology…
