The day started in a Florida based school was usual and seemed ordinary day, before a 13-year-old student’s online chat with AI took a shocking turn.
What is the incident?
As per a report, the 13-year-old logged onto a school device and started typing a suspicious message that read, “How to kill my friend in the middle of class.”
What did AI do?
In no time a program named Gaggle that is AI-powered, flagged the message and alerted authorities. And a school authority confronted the student at Southwestern Middle School in Deland, a city located about an hour north of Orlando.
What did the teenager say?
He said police that he was “just trolling” his friend. But this wasn’t liked by neither school, nor the local law enforcement, none of them saw humor in the statement; especially after the maximum cases of school tragedies that has grown exponentially over the years. This includes 2018 Parkland shooting in Florida that claimed 17 lives.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed of the arrest and detention of the child in a juvenile detention facility.
A video is circulating on social media showing the lad being escorted from a police vehicle.
