// Shin Bet: Israel’s FBI Uses Artificial Intelligence to Foil Terror Attacks

Discussion about the potential benefits and possible dangers of artificial intelligence goes on. In the meantime, the Shin Bet — Israel’s equivalent of the FBI — has instituted an undeniably positive use for the burgeoning new technology: helping to foil terrorist attacks against the Jewish state and its citizens. Although many such assaults are barely covered by the non-Israeli press, terrorism against Israel remains incessant and unrelenting.
 
Quote: “ ‘AI technology has been incorporated quite naturally into the Shin Bet’s interdiction machine,’ Bar said in a speech to the Cyber Week conference hosted by Tel Aviv University. ‘Using AI, we have spotted a not-inconsequential number of threats.’ AI has helped streamline Shin Bet work by flagging anomalies in surveillance data and sorting through “endless” intelligence, he said, adding that the technology also had a secondary role in decision-making ‘like a partner at the table, a co-pilot.’ ”
— Shin Bet director Ronen Bar via Reuters
 
Learn more about the Shin Bet from Wikipedia. ►
 
Read “Israel’s Shin Bet spy service uses generative AI to thwart threats” ►
 
Watch “Shin Bet foils 100s of suicide bombings” [1:26] (three years ago). ►
 
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