An artificial intelligence (AI) system installed in a school reportedly mistook a student’s bag of chips for a firearm and alerted police to an armed pupil on the premises.

According to NBC local affiliate WBAL-TV 11 News , Taki Allen was sitting with a group of friends outside Kenwood High School in Baltimore on Monday night when armed officers approached him.

“At first, I didn’t know where they were going until they started walking toward me with guns, talking about, ‘Get on the ground!’ and I was like, ‘What?’” Allen said to WBAL-TV.

Allen told the Maryland outlet that police informed him an AI detection system had mistaken a bag of chips — that he scrunched up and put in his pocket after eating them — for a weapon.

“They made me get on my knees, put my hands behind my back, and

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