In July 2025, a tactical team of United States Marshals descended on the Tennessee home of Angela Lipps, arresting the fifty-year-old grandmother at gunpoint while she watched her young grandchildren. Her apprehension was not the culmination of traditional detective work, but the result of authorities placing undue confidence in an AI-based facial recognition system. An algorithm had linked a photograph of her face to a counterfeit military identification card used in a sophisticated bank fraud operation over 1,200 miles away in Fargo, North Dakota.