Kash Patel claims AI stopped school shootings and is used across FBI
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Updated · The Independent · May 6
Kash Patel claims AI stopped school shootings and is used across FBI
5 articles · Updated · The Independent · May 6
Patel said tips helped avert attacks in North Carolina and New York, and that AI is now deployed in the FBI's National Threat Operations Center.
He told Sean Hannity the technology helps process vast weekly tip volumes, identify fingerprints quickly and speed fugitive arrests, with private tech companies embedded in bureau infrastructure.
Patel said AI was not used at the FBI before the second Trump administration and criticised predecessors, while he has faced broader public criticism in recent months.
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