Students at Lawton Chiles Middle School in Florida were sent scrambling into lockdown last week, after an alert from an AI surveillance system detected a student carrying a gun. When the alert went out, it triggered an automatic “code red,” giving administrators no choice but to react to the AI system’s decision. “The code red was a precaution and the children were never in any danger,” local police wrote in a Facebook post. Like the story from Lawton Chiles, the Baltimore false positive could’ve easily been prevented had a human being been in the loop. More on surveillance: Regular People Are Rising Up Against AI Surveillance Cameras