FBI Using AI To Stop School Shootings; Doomers Want It Paused -ZH
While the same 'current thing' leftists who spent years on climate, oil and "Palestine" now chants that AI will wipe out the human race, FBI Director Kash Patel just announced that the agency is using the technology to actively prevent mass shootings, including school attacks, before they happen.
Patel said artificial intelligence helped the bureau prevent possible school shootings in North Carolina and about half a dozen other states, and that he has increased the FBI's use of AI by 605 percent.
That is the version of AI that the pause-and-treaty crowd does not want discussed.
The comments match what he told the Senate Judiciary Committee days earlier. When he took the job, the bureau had two test use cases for artificial intelligence. "We just hit our 140th, that's a 605 percent increase since I've been in this seat, to process information to triage intelligence, analyze, and get this information out to our local partners."
This is not a science-fiction sermon. It is tip triage.
Patel has been making the operational case since spring. On Sean Hannity's podcast he said the old FBI treated modernization as an afterthought.
"AI was never used at the FBI till we got there, literally crazy," he said. "I'm using it everywhere."
The bottleneck was volume. The National Threat Operations Center takes thousands of tips a week. "If we had just humans look at it, we would never sift through them all." He put the question more sharply still: "What's the point of collecting terabytes of data if you can't sift through it?"
The North Carolina case is the one he keeps returning to. "We stopped a school massacre in North Carolina because we got a tip and we were able to triage it with artificial intelligence." A separate New York school threat, he said, was disrupted after "a tip from our private-sector partners who are building out AI infrastructure."
In a Fox News op-ed he described the machinery. When a call hits NTOC, AI generates a transcript, drafts a summary of the threat, scans open cases for matches, and assigns a lead value so the hottest tips rise first.
"This specific threat intake process helped the FBI quickly act and stop an attacker plotting a mass shooting at a North Carolina preschool," Patel urged.
The same overhaul, he wrote, helped the bureau identify and locate 6,300 missing children last year - a 30 percent increase - and arrest 2,000 abusers, a 20 percent increase. In a Richmond case, facial recognition tools were used to pull 8- and 12-year-old children away from a would-be abuser now facing 50 years.
The tools are being used to rank leads and get them to agents and local partners before someone walks through a school door.
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FBI Using AI To Stop School Shootings; Doomers Want It Paused
A 605% surge in bureau AI thwarted threats in North Carolina and half a dozen other states...
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