The injured teenage survivor of a January 2025 shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee high school recently sued the manufacturer of an “AI gun detection” system that failed to detect the handgun that left two dead, including the shooter.
According to the lawsuit, which was filed in Davidson County court last month, the security company Omnilert either knew or should have known that there were “significant operational limitations in its gun detection system that could result in detection failures during actual emergencies, including limitations based on camera placement, proximity of the weapon to camera sensors, camera angle, lighting, and weapon visibility.”
Omnilert cofounder Ara Bagdasarian declined Ars’ invitation to answer questions about the lawsuit. System Integrations, the other defendant in the case, which resold the Omnilert system, also did not respond to Ars’ request for comment.
I’m guessing you’re using Frigate?
Agreed. The system I had developed was built explicitly as a human-in-the-loop system. It never made any decisions on its own. It was just a tool to enable the existing security staff to have better visibility. That’s it.
You can make whatever argument you want about viability and efficacy. The only point I’m making is that our system was just an additional tool for security to use; not the only one.