Crediting the use of artificial intelligence in thwarting violent crimes, FBI Director Kash Patel said the agency’s functioning has been overhauled with AI tools in order to bring greater efficiency to the force.

In an opinion piece written for Fox News on Monday, Patel said that the agency has adopted AI as its centrifugal force in the past year, due to which the FBI managed to locate 6,300 missing kids (a 30% increase) and arrest 2000 accused abusers in 2025.

“AI is central to what we do. It is helping us identify victims of child exploitation, arrest and convict predators and more. In the recent FBI Richmond case, we used facial recognition tools to save 8- and 12-year-old children from a would-be abuser, who will now spend 50 years in prison,” wrote Patel.

The FBI director had also appointed a chief AI officer and set up and AI Review Board and an AI working group in the agency for streamlining AI adopting within the agency.

Patel informed that the agency is now using AI tools to generate call transcriptions and help correlate contacts with other complaints.

“When someone calls into NTOC — the National Threat Operations Center, our 911 center — AI tools generate a transcript of the call, draft an effective summary of the threat and immediately scan our database for comparisons to other open threat lines. This specific threat intake process helped the FBI quickly act and stop an attacker plotting a mass shooting at a North Carolina preschool,” said Patel.

Recently, Patel had claimed that the FBI was embedded with every major tech company in the world. The agency has collaborated with AI companies like OpenAI, xAI, Palantir AI and Anthropic as well as tech giants like NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft among others.

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