The FBI Is Using AI to Triage Tips — Escalating the Most Concerning in Minutes

The bureau is deploying AI to sift hundreds of incoming tips and route the highest-priority ones to field agents in hours, sometimes minutes.

The FBI is now using artificial intelligence to help process the flood of tips it receives, according to @CBSNews. The reported function is triage: the system sifts through hundreds of incoming tips and moves the most concerning to human field agents "in sometimes hours or even minutes" — a speed that manual review cannot match.

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