BiasHigh
SN Technologies Reportedly Lied to a New York State School District about Its Facial and Weapon Detection Systems’ Performance
- Occurred
- Jan 2, 2020
- Published
- Dec 1, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
SN Technologies allegedly misled Lockport City Schools about the performance of its AEGIS face and weapons detection systems, downplaying error rates for Black faces and weapon misidentification.
Developers
- SN Technologies
Deployers
- Lockport City School District
Harmed parties
- Students
- Epistemic integrity
- Educational communities
- Black students
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Company allegedly lied about error rates for Black faces, indicating discriminatory bias and potential harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8