Ethical Dilemmas in AI Surveillance

The FBI faced ethical and moral dilemmas when trying to navigate surveillance using AI tools to scan messages for threats, where the tool had to be trained to ignore threats from Americans. Despite wanting to investigate messages within the United States, there was reluctance and a lack of appetite to act on such information. The FBI encountered obstacles in gaining approval to monitor communications within the US, despite the willingness of prosecutors and agents to pursue the leads.