Teenager is woken by police in the middle of the night.
“As it turns out, a poem she had written years ago triggered the alarms of a software called GoGuardian Beacon, which its maker describes as a way to ‘safeguard students from physical harm.’”
“As it turns out, a poem she had written years ago triggered the alarms of a software called GoGuardian Beacon, which its maker describes as a way to ‘safeguard students from physical harm.’”
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Here's the NYT report the article is based on:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/health/suicide-monitoring-software-schools.html
Archived:
http://archive.today/UVybw
So you can see why they're rushing to employ their latest scam because it achieves the result no matter the misinformation.
Also, AI is scanning our children's poetry now? Did they consent to that, or to police 'intervention'? Another privacy violation.
@sanders.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691249131/ai-snake-oil?srsltid=AfmBOoqJdhxadFpOn8FY-tzxfQe1kT0B2cWmhkO4p_TV6eiBUXP0SXj3
Nothing to hide but also no need to make it easy for anyone on a crusade.
This attitude (seems like a byproduct of 1990s bad parenting examples) needs to go away. It probably never was true.
"There are a lot of false alerts," Ryan West, chief of the police department in charge of the school of the 17-year-old, told the NYT. "But if we can save one kid, it’s worth a lot of false alerts."
Also, make no mistake, they are centering on 'students' but if this is not stopped right now, they will start making a version for companies to 'protect' employees.
If kids need internet to pass school, then pay for their family to have it maybe.
https://futurism.com/professor-welcomes-future-employers-reading-brain
It's up to us to decide if EVIL usage dominates GOOD usage of AI.
Scary part: even a fraction of the EVIL use can endanger much more than a dominant GOOD use can do great things. 😳