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A concerning incident at a school has highlighted the potential pitfalls of relying on AI for security. An AI-powered security system misidentified a bag of Doritos as a gun, triggering a response that led to a student being handcuffed. The event, originally shared on Reddit’s r/artificialintelligence (https://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1ogt9cx/student_handcuffed_after_doritos_bag_mistaken_for/), underscores the need for rigorous testing and validation of AI systems used in sensitive environments, and sparks debate about algorithmic bias and the potential for false positives in automated threat detection.