Mayor Eric Adams plans to introduce AI-powered metal detectors into the New York City subway system in a bid to catch illegal guns and knives.
The mayor said that the city will begin testing in subway stations high-tech metal detectors manufactured by Evolv Technology, which the mayor said has a “99%” accuracy rate in identifying guns and knives, and differentiating them from typical metal items like cell phones and keys.
Hizzoner boldly compared the move to adapt the tech to New York City’s subways to the space race of the 1950s and 1960s — including the Soviets putting the first satellite into orbit and John F. Kennedy’s famous call to put an American on the moon before the end of the 1960s.