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The biggest issues I have with AIT are as follows:

1) How much longer they make security lines due to how much slower they are, and having to funnel two metal detector lines into a single AIT machine.

2) How much more expensive they are than metal detectors.

3) How they don’t actually work any better than the cheaper metal detectors.

4) How those longer waits and compressed lines actually make a much more dangerous “soft target” outside of the screening areas. When you pack so many more people into a security situation and take longer to screen them, you have a lot of innocent people at risk.

The privacy concerns are less of an issue to me, as I choose to opt-out every time I fly (which is rather frequently, and unavoidable.) But given the overall cost, ineffectiveness, increased wait times, and increased risk as a passenger, AIT is a completely unacceptable solution.