Evolv Technologies CEO Peter George talks on the role of AI in detecting armed threats through metal detectors in schools.

In an interview with Yahoo Finance, Evolv Technologies CEO Peter George spoke on AI and security in schools in the context of last week’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. He said: “As you know, today, the only conventional technology is a metal detector invented 80 years ago. It’s good at finding metal and not very good at finding weapons.” (Yahoo Finance)

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The company uses the most advanced sensors and AI technology to identify weapons on people or threats as they walk through metal detectors with their belongings.

“So things like keys, Yeti cups or iPhones, you get to walk right through, unless you have a threat,” George said. “Then we’ll find it, whether it’s a concealed weapon or an open carry weapon.”

Elaborating further, he said that technology was only one component, however, of the overall security system.

“We believe it takes three things to have a really strong security posture. The first one is technology, then process, and then people.”

“Making it very simple to operate, so that the AI technology does all the work for you to identify the threats at speed and scale is really, really important, but our systems always have to be manned by somebody,” he added.

Evolv now has hundreds of its systems in nine different states across the country to fulfil its mission: “To make the world a safer place to live, work, and play and learn, so that teachers can go to school and teach, and students can go to school and learn.”

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