School Shootings Spawned News Today

Federal officials have opened an inquiry into the marketing practices of a security company that’s landed multi-million dollar school district contracts by promising its artificial intelligence-powered weapons detection scanners can ferret out threats with unrivaled speed and precision. Publicly traded Evolv Technology acknowledged that the Federal Trade Commission had “requested information about certain aspects of […]

A coalition of Democratic lawmakers on Thursday called on the U.S. Education Department to investigate school districts that use digital surveillance and other artificial intelligence tools in ways that trample students’ civil rights. In a letter shared exclusively with The 74, the coalition expressed concerns that AI-enabled student monitoring tools could foster discrimination against marginalized […]