October 23, 2025 - Concerns over AI surveillance in schools are intensifying after armed officers swarmed a 16-year-old student outside Kenwood High School in Baltimore when an AI gun detection system falsely flagged a Doritos bag as a firearm.

October 24, 2025 - A US teenager was handcuffed by armed police after an artificial intelligence (AI) system mistakenly said he was carrying a gun - when really he was holding a packet of crisps.

October 25, 2025 - An AI-powered gun detection system hooked up to a Baltimore County high school’s cameras mistook a bag of Doritos chips as a weapon — and called the cops on a 16-year-old student.

October 24, 2025 - Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspicious ... An artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.

October 25, 2025 - “I was just holding a Doritos ... gun,” Allen told WBAL. The AI-powered security system at the school is just one example of how schools are approaching safety in the age of mass gun violence....

October 24, 2025 - The system appears to have flagged the bag as a weapon, the outlet writes. The boy in question, Taki Allen, says that, following his football practice, he was sitting outside the school with a group of his friends when a large band of police ...

September 4, 2025 - Doritos bags in the hands of Black teens for guns all the time without AI too.

October 27, 2025 - A high school student in Baltimore County, Maryland was reportedly handcuffed and searched after an AI security system flagged his bag of chips as a possible firearm. Taki Allen, a student at Kenwood High School, told CNN affiliate WBAL, “I ...

October 22, 2025 - Police showed Allen the picture that triggered the AI detector. "I was just holding a Doritos bag — it was two hands and one finger out, and they said it looked like a gun," Allen told WBAL-TV 11 News.

Taki Allen was handcuffed after Omnilert's AI gun detection system flagged his Doritos bag as a weapon

October 26, 2025 - "I was just holding a Doritos bag ... a gun," Allen told WBAL. The AI-powered security system at the school is just one example of how schools are approaching safety in the age of mass gun violence....

October 24, 2025 - An artificial intelligence (AI) system installed in a school reportedly mistook a student’s bag of chips for a firearm and alerted police to an armed pupil on the premises. According to NBC local affiliate WBAL-TV 11 News, Taki Allen was sitting with a group of friends outside Kenwood High School in Baltimore on Monday night when armed officers approached him. “At first, I didn’t know where they were going until they started walking toward me with guns, talking about, ‘Get on the ground!’ and I was like, ‘What?’” Allen said to WBAL-TV.

October 23, 2025 - They did, and determined it wasn't a gun and called the cops anyway. https://www.channel3000.com/news/just-holding-a-doritos-bag-student-handcuffed-after-ai-system-mistook-bag-of-chips-for/article_957fa614-8f01-51de-b41c-40e792e1f2a8.html Continue this thread ...

October 30, 2025 - Allen said the police “said that an AI detector or something detected that I had a gun. But I was just holding — they showed me a picture — I was just holding a Doritos bag.”

October 26, 2025 - The AI system sent an alert to law enforcement after identifying the shiny, folded chip bag as a possible gun. According to Baltimore County police, officers responded within minutes and detained Allen inside the school.

October 25, 2025 - An AI system at a Maryland high school misidentified a Doritos bag as a gun, triggering an armed police response on a 16-year-old student.

October 24, 2025 - This AI system is from Omnilert, and it automatically identifies guns based on the shapes and shadows of objects captured by the camera.Wrinkles in the bag, light reflections, and the shape of a finger are mistaken for a gunOmnilert commented ...

November 6, 2025 - Baltimore police drew guns on, then handcuffed, a high school student when an AI-powered surveillance system mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun.

(WBAL/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - An AI-powered gun detector incorrectly identified something a student stuffed into his pockets as a gun, prompting an armed response from police who held the teen at gunpoint.