FBI Director Says AI Has Helped Stop School Shootings

The FBI director said artificial intelligence has enabled the bureau to stop school shootings by rapidly processing tips that would otherwise overwhelm human analysts. He told a television interviewer that artificial intelligence was not used at the FBI until the second Trump administration.

" "We stopped a school massacre in North Carolina because we got a tip and we were able to triage it with artificial intelligence," he said on Tuesday.

The director also stated that an unrelated school shooting in New York was stopped after the bureau received a tip from private-sector partners involved in its AI infrastructure. The director explained that the bureau receives a large volume of tips each week. "If we had just humans look at it, we would never sift through them all," he said.

Artificial intelligence software is now being used to help manage that volume. The director said he has involved private technology companies in the agency's operations. "I've got every major tech company in the world embedded in the FBI, rebuilding our internet capabilities, our classified systems, and the ability for artificial intelligence to be in our counterterrorism program so we can get instantaneous results," he stated.

He added that the technology allows agents to identify fingerprints immediately and obtain arrest warrants. Artificial intelligence is being implemented in the bureau's National Threat Operations Center. The director contrasted the current approach with that of his predecessors.

that wasn't their focus," he said. " he asked. The bureau has embedded technology companies to support this modernization effort.

The comments were made during an appearance on a television program hosted by Sean Hannity.