In October, the internet came to the defense of a Baltimore county student named Taki Allen. The reason? Allen, who is Black, said that his school’s new AI-powered detection system accused him of carrying a weapon — because he was holding a bag of chips. Consequently, he was stormed by police and put into handcuffs.

Naturally, this caused a bit of an uproar to which the local police and the company that made the system had to respond. Now, they’ve finally released that response. Their explanation? “We’re not good at our jobs.”

As reported by CTV News, an investigation by the state Inspector General for Education declared that race was not a factor in the event. Instead, they claimed that their system was so poorly designed that the simple way that Allen was holding the bag of chips was enough to flag him as dangerous, and thus, “justified” the massive police response.

Of course, not everyone is buying it. Some are questioning whether a white student who made the same hand gesture would *also* bring a half-dozen cop cars to the school, while others are wondering how effective a system like this could really be if it’s this easy to generate a false positive.

The school also said that it will be instituting new procedures to prevent something like this from happening again. That said, they’re not getting rid of the system that started this whole kerfuffle in the first place, so … progress?