Are you in a school shooting right now? There's an app for that

Bad idea. The cost of those could be much better spent on things that would actually reduce crime.

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This is a task that even humans (claim they) can’t get right nearly often enough. AI’s probably further behind than that.

…Though the AI probably isn’t sporting a “punisher” tattoo/truck decal, and isn’t looking for reasons to shoot people.

Probably swapping out the ad-insertion libraries for ones that promise higher rates.

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The technically correct term is “Lead-Spooging Freedom Penis”.

I look forward to the inevitable AI-punking that can convince image recognition software that a harmless object is a gun (which will get sold to vulnerable populations as a “joke”), as well as the companies that will inevitably sell guns or after-market accessories that can punk the software into mistaking the gun for something innocuous.

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Sci-fi didn’t predict apps to inform you of you are in a shooting. Sci-fi predicted weapons which can only be fired if your DNA match IDs you as the killsticks true owner ™. (And how this could be circumvented, of course.)

I think it’s about time that someone starts writing an alternate timeline since the year 1999.
We could read it as science fiction. Or as a manual.

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