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Kash Patel claims AI has stopped school shootings: ‘I’m using it everywhere’ (www.the-independent.com)
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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 108 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Some memorable quotes:

Speaking to Sean Hannity, Patel claimed that artificial intelligence was never used at the FBI until the second Trump administration.

Patel added: “What’s the point of collecting terabytes of data if you can’t sift through it?”​

“I’ve got every major tech company in the world embedded in the FBI, rebuilding our internet capabilities, our classified systems, and the ability for artificial intelligence to be in our counterterrorism program so we can get instantaneous results,” he said.

​“The former FBI rejected that notion because they knew…that wasn’t their focus,” he said, referring to the implementation of A.I.

This guy must be half-blind from slapping back his entire supply of cheap bourbon because he can’t see a single red flag in any of these statements. I realize a fascist techno-dystopia has been the plan all along, but even after the last 10 years the hubris still astonishes me.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 41 points 3 days ago

This is such a security nightmare I can't even begin to comprehend it, bad ideas on so many levels that he's hit a glitch screen.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago

I’ve got every major tech company in the world embedded in the FBI,

The fuck, man? How are they allowed to just do shit like this??

[–] Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 days ago

When I watched Brasil way back when, I wondered how society could slip into such a nonsensical distopia .

I'm guessing this is a pretty good step in that direction.

[–] jve@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

collecting terabytes of data

Also, fwiw, this is probably off by about 7 or 8 orders of magnitude.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Terabytes is a subset of Petabytes, so it's not a complete lie.

[–] jve@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

If they are short of an exabyte, I would be astonished.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I think i have a TB of data just storing the TV show The Expanse in 4K.