{"id":19317,"date":"2024-11-27T21:34:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19317"},"modified":"2024-11-27T21:34:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T21:34:09","slug":"us-regulator-says-ai-scanner-deceived-users-after-bbc-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19317","title":{"rendered":"US regulator says AI scanner 'deceived' users after BBC story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US weapons scanning company Evolv Technology will be banned from making unsupported claims about its products in a proposed settlement with the US government.<\/p>\n

The company had claimed its AI scanner, used in the entrances of thousands of US schools, hospitals and stadiums, could detect all weapons.<\/p>\n

However BBC investigations showed these claims to be false.<\/p>\n

Evolv said it has now reached an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), but hasn\u2019t admitted wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

The FTC said the action should be a warning to other AI companies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe FTC has been clear that claims about technology \u2013 including artificial intelligence \u2013 need to be backed up\u201d, said Samuel Levine, Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection.<\/p>\n

Evolv Technology\u2019s mission is to replace metal detectors with AI weapons scanners.<\/p>\n

It claims to do this with artificial intelligence, which can actively detect concealed weapons like bombs, knives and guns.<\/p>\n

The FTC\u2019s complaint alleges the company deceptively advertised its scanners would detect \u201call weapons\u201d.<\/p>\n

In 2022 the BBC outlined some of the impressive claims Evolv\u2019s then CEO had made about the technology.<\/p>\n

“Metallic composition, shape, fragmentation – we have tens of thousands of these signatures, for all the weapons that are out there,” chief executive Peter George said in 2021. “All the guns, all the bombs and all the large tactical knives.”<\/p>\n

However a BBC report in 2022<\/a> showed testing that had found Evolv\u2019s system could not reliably detect guns or bombs – after a freedom of information request from security-analysis company IPVM.<\/p>\n

Another BBC report in 2023 revealed details<\/a> of a stabbing in a New York school where Evolv\u2019s weapons scanners were used.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt truly, truly does not find knives\u201d the then Superintendent of Utica Schools told the BBC.<\/p>\n

And earlier this year the BBC reported that Evolv\u2019s claims that the UK government had tested and approved its technology were also false.<\/a><\/p>\n

Under the US consumer watchdog’s proposed settlement, Evolv will be banned from making unsupported claims about its products\u2019 ability to detect weapons and give some school customers the option to cancel their contracts. <\/p>\n

It will now go to a judge for approval.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Evolv said that it had worked \u201ccollaboratively\u201d with the agency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FTC did not challenge the fundamental effectiveness of our technology and that the resolution does not include any monetary relief\u201d said Mike Ellenbogen, Interim President and CEO of Evolv.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be clear, this inquiry was about past marketing language and not our system\u2019s ability to add value to security operations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

There is concern amongst officials in the US and UK about companies overstating the ability of artificial intelligence to improve products. In some instances it\u2019s unclear whether artificial intelligence is being used at all.<\/p>\n

The FTC has recently launched \u201cOperation AI Comply\u201d that targets companies making deceptive claims about AI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: <\/em> www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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