- The FBI is seeking AI tools for predictive policing to identify potential threats before they act.
- The Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) is expanding its focus from Islamist terrorism to domestic dissent.
- The procurement document requests AI capabilities for predictive modeling using enhanced data with traceable lineage.
- The Trump administration reoriented the TSC toward broadly defined threats, including anti-Americanism and anti-capitalism.
- Civil liberties groups criticize the watch list for ease of adding names and difficulty of removal.
- Supreme Court cases have challenged the constitutionality of the watch list.
- Audits have found errors in the TSC database, and the list has missed actual terrorists like the Boston Marathon bombers.
- The State Department has designated political groups as terrorists, potentially linking U.S. citizens to foreign terrorism.
- The FBI aims to use AI from major tech companies to sift through large data volumes for counterterrorism.