🇺🇸 Kash Patel is the FBI Director under the Trump administration – the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) is the US domestic intelligence and law enforcement agency, equivalent to France’s DGSI.
🤖 Speaking on Sean Hannity’s podcast on May 6, Patel claimed AI had never been used at the FBI before his arrival: “AI was never used at the FBI till we got there, literally crazy. I’m using it everywhere.”
🏫 He cited two specific cases: a school massacre stopped in North Carolina and a school shooting prevented in New York, both after AI helped triage tips received from private-sector tech partners.
📬 The FBI receives thousands of tips per week. Patel integrated AI into the bureau’s National Threat Operations Center to filter them – “If we had just humans look at it, we would never sift through them all.”
🔍 AI is also being used in the Criminal Justice Information Services database to instantly match fingerprints and generate fugitive arrest warrants.
⚠️ No independent evidence has been provided to verify that AI actually stopped these specific attacks. The FBI did not respond to press requests for details on the tools used or the cases mentioned.
🎸 In parallel: NPR found that a promotional FBI video posted by Patel on May 4 contained at least 6 AI-generated shots that were near frame-for-frame copies of the Beastie Boys’ 1994 music video “Sabotage,” directed by Spike Jonze. The FBI did not respond to NPR’s questions about how the video was made.
Bottom line: Patel is aggressively marketing AI as the FBI’s new crime-fighting weapon — with two unverified success stories, no supporting documentation, and a side of apparent AI-generated copyright infringement.
