Israel’s Shin Bet uses AI to foil threats

Israel's Shin Bet security service has incorporated artificial intelligence into its tradecraft and used the technology to foil substantial threats, its director said in a statement, highlighting generating AI's potential for law enforcement. Among measures taken by the Shin Bet, Israel's counterpart of the American Federal Bureau of Investigations or Britain's MI 5 - has been the creation of its own generative AI platform, akin to ChatGPT or Bard, Mr Bar said. AI technology has been incorporated quite naturally into the Shin Bet's interdiction machine, Bar said in a speech at the Cyber Week conference hosted by Tel Aviv University. Using AI, we have spotted a not-inconsequential number of threats. Bar called for cooperation between commercial high-tech and government agencies like his to ensure AI leads to evolution and not revolution with Israel still pondering its AI policies, Bar urged cooperation between commercial hi-tech and government agencies such as his to ensure AI leads to evolution and not revolution. Israel's advanced computing and robotics industries, which draw on the talent developed in the technology-advancing conscript military, make Israel a world leader in AI.