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ShotSpotter: What is gunshot detection technology and is it effective? – BBC Newsnight
More than 100 cities across the US are using ShotSpotter, a service which uses gunshot detection technology to alert the police when heard. But is it as accurate or reliable as the company claims? Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog
50 people on average are killed with guns every day in the US.
Now more than 100 cities across the US are using a service which uses gunshot detection technology to alert the police when heard.
But ShotSpotter has become deeply controversial, with some questioning whether the technology works as well as the company claims.
James Clayton reports.
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Signal president Meredith Whittaker warns that AI could ‘supercharge mistakes’ in warfare | BBC News
AI can always be controlled, the president of encrypted messaging app Signal has told the BBC. Meredith Whittaker said fears that …
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AI can always be controlled, the president of encrypted messaging app Signal has told the BBC.
Meredith Whittaker said fears that AI could become conscious and take over were “not anchored in science and evidence”, warning instead about the dangers of using the technology in military decision-making.
The former Google employee said AI could “supercharge mistakes” and reflected on her role in opposing the company’s involvement in a US military drone surveillance project.
Speaking to the BBC Global Women, Whittaker also questioned who gets to shape the future of AI, criticised the concentration of power in Silicon Valley and explained why Signal would leave a country rather than compromise its users’ privacy.
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Developer Moonshot is conducting an internal review after researchers were able to persuade two of its popular Kimi models to tell them how to make biological weapons and carry out assassinations.
Mindgard, which tests the security of AI systems, told the BBC it discovered in July that Kimi K2.6 and K3 Swarm could evade safety limits put in place by developers.
It arose during a process called “jailbreaking”, where researchers use a series of complex instructions to see if AI tools ignore guardrails – which Mindgard said should have stopped Kimi from discussing concerning topics.
Moonshot told the BBC it welcomed third-party input “as a key pillar for building better and safer AI”.
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@TheRay8588
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
Well done BBC! 🤢
@MilesBellas
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
1:15
when will the public get to see the UK's mass surveillance system?
@bluestormcloud791
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
It would be helpful if I they explained what 97% accuracy is referring to. 97% of gunfire is detected? 97% of alarms were actual gunfire? 97 of triangulations were within a half mile of where the shots actually took place? Within 100 yards? Within 2 inches of where the system determined it to be? 97% of the time police arrested someone whose cellphone happened to be within a half mile of the supposed location?
Just like the 97% effective vaccine efficacy slogan, almost no one who got it can actually articulate what that 97% was referring to. We now know that Phizer never even claimed that the vaccine never prevented infection? People need to think what is the numerator and what is the denominator whenever someone throws out a percentage.
@STL-sh3yz
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
They allow crime to run rampant so they can implement tech like this, they make us beg for our prison cell.
@truesonic669
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
The pig said it sounded like it
@dragonore2009
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
I don't know if the police shot spotters don't work where I am or the police are just lazy because whenever I hear gunshots I don't hear cops ever.
@_Kitetsu
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
Hold up.. the rest is cool tech and all and great info. but..
What about the second guy? The old man, uber driver I'm guessing? (edit: sorry, he was giving a lift)
How the hell did HE get thrown in jail for "murder", when it was his passenger that got shot?
When I first heard of this tech I assumed automatically that its location based, …
..For the police to head to and THEN figure out WHO shot who by means of gun powder on hands etc.
You know, forensics department etc. How is this technology being used as judge and jury???
This isnt Minority Report with Tom Cruise technology here.. its JUST super sensitive microphones.
This makes no sense..
@robertmacdonald9330
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
it works as a crime detection tool but not as proof of a crime. 97% accurate doesn't really say anything to me what I would like to know here is how small of an area it can be pinpointed to and what the error margin is if they can say shots fired in the centre of a 4-lane street give or take 5 or 6 foot that could be someone in the car next to you
@IndigenousAmericanTrucker
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
I can definitely vouch for this technology and the fact that it definitely works! I've been very close to gunfire here in Washington DC on multiple occasions, and within minutes, police were right in the vicinity where those shots came from! Those shot spotters are definitely pretty accurate. I'm not sure if they are necessarily dead on to the exact spot, but definitely to the vicinity for sure! If they weren't accurate, I'm sure the military wouldn't have been using similar technology called boomerang, which they mounted on the back of humvees, strykers, and mrap's in Iraq, which showed the clock position of a shot fired in their direction on a device in the interior of the vehicle! They even had similar ones attached to individual dismounted soldiers called IGD's or Individual Gun Detection. I think it's an interesting piece of technology regardless of which form it's used. I just want to know how it differentiates between gunfire and fireworks, especially here in D.C where fireworks and gunfire are both constant!
@truesonic669
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
Bottom line they are guessing
Stupid just get rid of it
@truesonic669
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
Its a racist tool to target black people. Shot spotter does not work. Then again you frame incent people. And relie on sensor. It makes a misstake ans now you have law suite and legal problems
@LoeNateDogg
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
They locked him up for 11 months?! Ya imma sue shotspotter and that police agency. Compensate me for everyday I was in and emotional distress. And wage loss and more.
@photovi
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
it’s really worth it and only going to get better
@David-jv7ot
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
I know it,s been mentioned in other comments, but this is simplya tool for the police to use,it'snot the gosple.. the police use Taser's world wilde and some times they get it wrong . police may apprehend a suspect and use handcuffs, that does not get a case thrown out of courts. they may hold an innocent custody. whilst investigating a potential crime.. this is just another tool and jist like the others mentioned if it saves lives or stops criminals and potentially makes a town or city safe.. then surley there is no problem
@mitchdogstudios
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
I'm glad these people of color keep proving the point of why they're frowned upon. Way proof our point Chief!
@markrice23
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
All this tech…
Ban all guns
@coffeepeachesplans
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
Well if you analyze they disable or kill or more
@ScriptKitty86
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
Most nail guns use some type of .22 blank to propel a nail into a roof shingle or 2/4. How would this system know it’s a nail gun and not a pistol?
@djonenonly8381
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
So microphones are put into neighborhoods…… hmmmmmmm
@lordshu007
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
"My partners been shot AAAIIIGGGHHH!"
😂😂😂😂
@nate5703
December 28, 2023 at 7:44 am
The Chicago Officer texting and driving on his phone during this video when that is illegal in Illinois.. lmaoo, not anti police by any measure but thats just funny cmon now