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I wasn't implying TSA-cargo-pant-groping is comparable. My point is to show escalation in public facing systems. We have been dealing with TSA. Now we get AI Scanners. What's next?

Also, no need to escalate this into a race issue.

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Yes because I’m sure if a White female had been detected by AI of carrying a gun, it would have been treated the same way.

You have no evidence to suggest this, just bias. Unless you are aware of the AI algorithm, then it's a pointless discussion that only causes strife and conjecturing.

It’s not the AI algorithm, it’s the police response I’m questioning would be different.

How many audit the police videos have you seen on Youtube? There are an insufferable amount of "white" people getting destroyed by the cops. If you replace the "white" people in these videos with "black" then 99% of viewers would assume the cops are hardcore racist, when in fact, they are just bad cops - very bad cops, that have some deep psychological issues - probably rooted from a traumatic childhood.

https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/one-in-five-dispar...

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/fryer/files/empirical_anal...

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2022/12/22/policing_survey...

But it was a black man they harassed.

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