(NewsNation) — Armed police handcuffed and searched a student after his Maryland high school's artificial intelligence-driven security system mistook a bag of chips for a gun.

The student, Taki Allen, was sitting with friends after football practice outside of Kenwood High School in Essex, Maryland, last week, when armed police officers showed up and handcuffed him, according to local outlet WBAL in Baltimore.

"They made me get on my knees, put my hands behind my back, and cuffed me. Then, they searched me and they figured out I had nothing,” Allen told WBAL.

Allen said that police told him an AI detector had flagged the crumpled bag of chips in his pocket as a weapon.

“The first thing I was wondering was, was I about to die? Because they had a gun pointed at me,” Allen told WBAL.

“I

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