Steven Zeitchik reports:
When Peter George saw news of the racially motivated mass-shooting at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo last weekend, he had a thought he’s often had after such tragedies.
“Could our system have stopped it?” he said. “I don’t know. But I think we could democratize security so that someone planning on hurting people can’t easily go into an unsuspecting place.”
George is chief executive of Evolv Technology, an AI-based system meant to flag weapons, “democratizing security” so that weapons can be kept out of public places without elaborate checkpoints.
Read more at MSN.
h/t, Joe Cadillic, who provides two earlier reports on the topic:
Gillette Stadium’s Evolv Edge Facial Recognition Scanners Can ID Fans Before They Enter The Stadium (2019)
https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2019/06/gillette-stadiums-facial-recognition.html
Evolv Edge Scans More Than 1 Million People’s Faces (2018)