Artificial Intelligence

 The Guardian - The Guardian exclusively reviewed more than 80 documents and memos that were distributed among a nationwide network of federal, state and local law enforcement offices – including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the FBI and the New York City police department (NYPD) – between 2021 and 2026. They were obtained by government transparency non-profit Property of the People and shared with the Guardian.

In these documents, officers discussed:

• How extremists could use AI to devise attacks and recruit new members
• How AI could be used to disseminate and produce everything from deepfakes to election misinformation and child sexual abuse material (CSAM)
• How people seeking information on how to make weaponry or bombs could use AI to circumvent police detection
• How to ensure that officers could take advantage of AI tools in policing, for things like social media monitoring, while managing public concern over the use of these tools
• Monitoring social media for opposition to AI and potential extremist attacks on datacenters

The FBI did not respond to detailed questions on its monitoring of anti-AI sentiment and use of AI, but pointed to a general fact sheet on the agency’s use of the technology.

The NYPD stated that its threat analysis report on artificial intelligence was related to the “AI 2027” project – an influential forecast from several AI researchers that speculated about the technology’s rapid growth and the threats it could present. In one of the project’s possible futures, it predicted bioweapon-armed drones wiping out humanity.