Incident 349: Evolv's Gun Detection False Positives Created Problems for Schools
Description: Evolv's AI-based weapons detection system reportedly produced excessive false positives, mistaking everyday school items for weapons and pulling schools' security personnel for manual checking.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Evolv Technology developed an AI system deployed by Charlotte Mecklenburg School District, which harmed students at Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools , teachers at Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools and security officers at Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
349
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2022-03-22
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
On March 22, Jennifer Dean, the principal of Mallard Creek High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, emailed members of her staff to tell them about a new security system being installed. Made by a Massachusetts-based company called Evolv T…
We’re just going to keep getting kids killed in America. We’ll never stop throwing money in the direction of the problem, but not directly at the problem. Nothing gets safer. It just gets more budget line items.
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Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.