Hacker News: jharrison11https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jharrison11Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:49:51 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by jharrison11 in "Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon"]]>Looks like per their website it did function as intended... It surfaces potential threats for the school to look at and make a human decision. The principal decided to send the police after the school safety team dismissed it as part of the correct process. I mean fire alarms go off for lots of things that are not fire alarms... This was an alert meant to be validated by a human that messed up.

Its pretty clearly documented how it works here:

https://www.omnilert.com/solutions/gun-detection-system https://www.omnilert.com/solutions/ai-gun-detection https://www.omnilert.com/solutions/professional-monitoring

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