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FBI official says artificial intelligence helped stop planned school attacks, speeds fingerprint matches
Summary
An agency official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the FBI is using AI to triage "thousands" of tips weekly, speed fingerprint matches and, the official asserted, helped prevent planned school attacks in North Carolina and New York; no dates or independent corroboration were provided in the remarks.
An agency official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the bureau has begun using artificial intelligence across operations to triage the thousands of tips it receives weekly, speed fingerprint matches and, the official said, help prevent planned school attacks.
The official described deploying AI in the FBI’s criminal justice information systems to "pop fingerprints immediately" and in the National Threat Operations Center to prioritize incoming tips that would be impossible for humans to review one-by-one. "If we had just humans look at it, we would never sift through them all," the official said.
Those speed gains, the official said, produced concrete results: "We stopped a school massacre in North Carolina because we got a tip, and we were able to triage it with artificial intelligence," the official said. The official also said a school shooting in New York was stopped after a tip from "our private sector partners who are building our AI infrastructure." The remarks did not include dates, locations beyond the states cited, investigatory details or the identities of the private-sector partners.
The official said AI has also made fingerprint hits nearly instantaneous compared with earlier, slower processes: "Now those hits are instantaneous because we are welcoming in artificial intelligence." The official added that the FBI has "every major tech company in the world embedded in the FBI, rebuilding our Internet capabilities, our classified systems," and that AI is being integrated into counterterrorism work so the agency can get "instantaneous results."
The official framed the shift as a practical response to data volume: "What's the point of collecting terabytes of data if you can't sift through it?" No further corroboration or operational details were offered in the remarks.
The official did not provide dates, the names of the incidents or victims, or additional documentary evidence in the transcript. Those details would be necessary to independently verify the agency's claims about specific prevented attacks and the role of AI in particular investigations.
