TEL AVIV — Israel's Shin Bet security agency has incorporated artificial intelligence into its tradecraft and used the technology to foil "threats," its director said on Tuesday, highlighting generative AI's potential for law enforcement.
Among measures taken by the Shin Bet has been the creation of its own generative AI platform, akin to ChatGPT or Bard, director Ronen Bar said.
"AI technology has been incorporated quite naturally into the Shin Bet's interdiction machine," Bar said in a speech to the Cyber Week conference hosted by Tel Aviv University. "Using AI, we have spotted a not-inconsequential number of threats."
AI has helped streamline Shin Bet work by flagging anomalies in surveillance data and sorting through "endless" intelligence, he said, adding that the technology also had a secondary role in decision-making "like a partner at the table, a co-pilot."
Bar urged cooperation between commercial hi-tech and government agencies such as his "to ensure AI leads to evolution and not to revolution."
With Israeli officials still pondering AI policies, Bar called for the expected regulations to include a review of Shin Bet-related laws as well as a redefinition of official secrecy.
Israel is considered a world leader in AI, due to burgeoning computing and robotics industries that draw on talent the technologically-advanced conscript military.
agency has incorporated artificial intelligence into its
tradecraft and used the technology to foil "threats," its director said on Tuesday, highlighting generative AI's
potential for law enforcement.
Among measures taken by the Shin Bet has been the creation of its own generative AI
platform, akin to ChatGPT or Bard,...