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Philadelphia's Temple University Adds AI Weapon Detection System To Help With Campus Security

The university, with a student population of more than 30,000, currently has 1,500 active security cameras.

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Philadelphia's Temple University is turning to artificial intelligence to strengthen campus safety, incorporating new technology to help manage the network of surveillance cameras monitoring the campus.

The university, with a student population of more than 30,000, currently has 1,500 active security cameras.

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"There's absolutely, physically no way that someone can monitor 1,500 cameras, some of them with multiple views," Temple Police Chief Jennifer Griffin said.

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