FBI Using AI To Stop School Shootings; Doomers Want It Paused

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."

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.

It's not something that has been considered by the doomer leftists now literally calling for AI to be 'switched off'.

San Francisco and London just got an NPC software update. The banners changed. The wardrobe did not.

Dozens marched from OpenAI's Mission Bay headquarters to Anthropic's offices and on to San Francisco City Hall, demanding Mayor Daniel Lurie declare a local "AI state of emergency." Chalk on the pavement read "Extinction is on the table."

Organiser Hunter Glenn told reporters, "I was pretty scared about the possibility of extinction for awhile." In London, "PauseAI" and "Pull The Plug" rallies formed after Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger said he personally believed there was a greater than 10 percent chance AI could "kill all humans" within a decade. Their slogan: "10% chance of extinction? 100% chance of resistance."

Scott Jennings had already mapped the rotation. "It's always the same apocalyptic crowd moving from one issue to the next. Responsible guardrails are one thing, but handicapping American innovation while China speeds ahead with zero regulation isn't sound policy - it's just foolish."

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gave the extinction industry a simpler number. There is a "0% chance" the world ends in 2030. "2030 is not going to be the end of the world."

A U.S. pause would not freeze the technology. It would freeze the labs already winning and hand the century's defining stack to Beijing. Europe sold GDPR as virtue and now hosts none of the world's dominant labs.

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale told Jesse Watters the scare is not civic caution. It is a campaign.

"These guys don't believe in God. They're atheists, but they've created something they believe is God," Watters said, laying out Lonsdale's point. "This is their Messiah, and this is their end of the world."

Lonsdale was direct. "There is a coordinated campaign to make the American people afraid." San Francisco, he said, dropped Christianity and still wanted a messiah and an apocalypse. "If you give up religion, you want some kind of messianic complex, some kind of big thing to believe in. These effective altruists - this is their Messiah, this is their end of the world, this is their obsession."

An industrial revolution is coming that would be "amazing for America if we get it right." The people trying to stop it, Lonsdale said, "hate America."

That theology now has a policy shop. Bill Gates is back on the emergency circuit calling AI an "alien intelligence."

"I don't think any government is nearly as deep on this as they have to be," he told Reuters. "Governments are way behind on this one." Then the Hollywood script: "There's all sorts of movies where some aliens are coming, and magically the US and China and everybody comes together to solve the problem. AI is kind of like this alien intelligence. It's here, and we better do like it shows in those movies."

On a podcast he went further. "It's not the role of the industry to self-regulate or understand the whole-of-society impact that comes out of AI." He wants a permanent cross-border watchdog stitched from nuclear inspections, aviation rules and ozone treaties - and a meeting with Xi Jinping. In the same news cycle his foundation pledged $1 billion over two years to spread AI through schools, clinics and farms. Alarm in one hand. Pipeline in the other.

President Trump has already rejected the slowdown. "We're leading China in AI," he said. "Whoever wins AI, wins." A lot of the horror stories being shopped around, he added, "won't happen."

Trump also answered the doomer circuit with an appointment, not a pause. He said he is forming an "AI Force," modeled on Space Force, and will name a high-IQ "AI Czar" to keep the United States first while the left's latest scare campaign is treated as what he called it: another hoax.

"AI is the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful, possibly as much as 25% of our Country's GDP," he said. "We are leading China, and the rest of the World, and I intend to keep it that way."

"We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry. Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows," Trump added, noting that bad actors can be handled with the criminal and civil courts already on the books - not a Gates-style global leash.

One future is the FBI using models to transcribe a threat call, score it, match it, and get a cop to a North Carolina preschool before the shooting starts. The other is a global committee, a Netflix doom documentary sold as the new Inconvenient Truth, and a street mob that needs the next wipeout the way some people need a weather report.

China is not holding a pause-and-pray summit. Chinese firms have been accused by U.S. officials of stripping American models at industrial scale. Beijing's spy chief has treated AI as a Party-control problem, which is another way of saying the CCP wants the weapon.

Patel's point is narrower and harder to slogan away. Used by cops, under the law, the same class of tools the doomers want parked under an international inspectorate is already being used to find missing kids, rank tips, and stop school plots. Every plot that never makes a headline is a child who goes home.

America can build the thing, police the abuse, and keep the lead. Or it can let the extinction church write the rules while the bureau that just started using the tools is told to wait for permission from a committee Gates wants to staff.

Do the words “pre crime” ring a bell?

2 posted on 09/20/2026 1:57:15 PM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)

AI can’t clean up the voter rolls.

3 posted on 09/20/2026 3:03:33 PM PDT by Brian Griffin

ok... ...let’s just see what kind of results they publicize. It should be telling from a few different perspectives.

This is the first real “investigative” boasts i’ve seen for AI...

4 posted on 09/20/2026 3:09:42 PM PDT by sit-rep (I may be Dumb, but I'm not Stupid!)

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