Sonny talks about AI in the physical security industry. Sramana Mitra: Let's introduce our audience to yourself as well as to Actuate AI. Sonny Tai: I'm the CEO and Co-Founder of Actuate. We are a New York-based AI startup. I was born in Taiwan, but I grew up in South Africa. I'm an immigrant to the United States. The reason why that is relevant is because South Africa has one of the highest rates of gun violence and crime in the world. Unfortunately, while growing up, some of our family and friends were impacted by gun violence including a family friend who was shot in his own home. This is a big reason why I've always had a deep interest in protecting other people and doing something about public safety. I ended up coming to the US when I was was 13 with my mom and my sister. I joined the Marine Corps after I got my green card. I served in the US Marine for 10 years between reserve and active duty. I got out of active duty in 2013. I applied to business school when I was

The details of what happened on the third floor of Parkland High School last February are excruciating, in part because some parents believe their children's deaths were avoidable, Nikolas Cruz spent six minutes and 41 seconds inside the building, If, students on the third floor had had more warning, or if law enforcement had the information to act faster, they might not have died, according to an investigation by the South Florida Sun Sentinel (the investigation also concluded there were errors by the Broward County police). A couple of MBA's from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business say they have a way to make security cameras more effective tools to help information travel faster if there is a shooter in the building. No one was monitoring the security cameras at Parkland, according to the Sun Sentinel. At $20 per month per security camera, the students, who named the company Aegis AI, have developed AI software that watches security cameras, identifies guns and sends information into whatever information system an institution has developed. For a school with 100 cameras, that would be about $24,000 a year.