New Jersey's Ocean City taps AI gun detection in hopes of thwarting mass shootings

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The Ocean City School District, as well as the city's boardwalk, have implemented new technology that uses artificial intelligence to scan camera feeds for guns.

The Ocean City School District in New Jersey, as well as the city's boardwalk, have implemented new technology developed by ZeroEyes, a company that says it uses AI, paired with human experts, to scan camera feeds for guns.

"I'm 100% confident that we are going to have such a fast response compared to not having this system," Prettyman said. "is going to increase the opportunity of our officers to get into that building as quickly as possible and save lives." Clients give ZeroEyes access to their security camera feeds, and then ZeroEyes uses its AI technology to constantly scan for any object that appears to be a gun. Once it detects a gun, the company says it will send a screenshot back to ZeroEyes headquarters, where a group of analysts, consisting of former law enforcement and veterans, confirm whether the detection is a real threat or not. If the threat is confirmed, the ZeroEyes analysts dispatch an alert to the client and local law enforcement.

According to Lahiff, the company has never sent a false alarm to a client. Lahiff credits this record to the human analysts that double check their AI, who are staffed 24/7, 365 days a year, and the data put into the system. AI technology generally for programming racial biases into systems, especially with facial recognition."We're not we're not collecting biometric data on people," Lahiff said. "We're not collecting faces or names or anything like that. It's just looking for an object, looking for a gun."

According to Johnson Jr., there is only one true solution to the problem of mass shootings in the United States.

 

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