Ep 73. Why students cancelled an AI surveillance contract

Guest: Danny Otten, PhD candidate in computer science and VP of the Graduate Student Association at William & Mary in Virginia

Background:

• William & Mary students vote to end AI surveillance contract

• AI system failed to identify a school shooting in progress at Antioch High

• AI classified Doritos chips as a gun and then police pointed real guns at students

• FTC take action on the false marketing claims of an AI metal detector company

• AI camera system dispatch police for an active shooter who was a band student holding a clarinet

• Another AI camera system dispatched an active shooter response for a student holding a bag of Doritos chips

• CCTV system at a major university failed to record photos of the assailant entering or leaving the campus

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David Riedman, PhD is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my podcast—Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education & Security—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio and the New England Journal of Medicine.