I’m not going to comment on the racial bias part as I have no data on any of that, but I’m not sure they use “AI” in any modern sense of the term. It’s basically the same tech triggering the activation words of our voice activated home assistants but massively scaled.
I lived in a city with shotspotter long before modern AI was popular. It is a simply sound detection and triangulation as far as I’m aware.
The night it was activated, blanks were fired by police to calibrate the network. The next morning, there was an article that the system detected and triangulated 4 additional shots.
I’m not going to comment on the racial bias part as I have no data on any of that, but I’m not sure they use “AI” in any modern sense of the term. It’s basically the same tech triggering the activation words of our voice activated home assistants but massively scaled.
I lived in a city with shotspotter long before modern AI was popular. It is a simply sound detection and triangulation as far as I’m aware.
The night it was activated, blanks were fired by police to calibrate the network. The next morning, there was an article that the system detected and triangulated 4 additional shots.