During a Fox News appearance, former Israeli Defense Forces soldier Aaron Cohen bragged he is building the world’s first “AI-powered threat detection system” that scans the Internet for “radicalization and tactical planning.”
Cohen, who was a guest on the Sean Hannity show to discuss terrorist threats, used his appearance to pitch his new technology, called Gideon, to the Trump administration.
“It scrapes the Internet 24/7, using an Israeli-grade ontology to pull specific threat language, and then routes it to local law enforcement,” he further explained.
Cohen, who served in special operations in the IDF, describes himself as a counterterrorism expert. He previously boasted about Gideon in an X post, dated June 1. That post said he was seeking seed money to expand the engineering team and to start a pilot program for law enforcement agencies.
Law enforcement advocate Randy Sutton, of The Wounded Blue, tell AFN it was only a “matter of time” before AI technology was utilized for such a purpose.
Beyond the sci-fi feel of such technology, Sutton shares some constitutional concerns, too.
“What are the parameters that law enforcement can use in order to try and investigate, or stop an attack, before it happens?” he asks. “These are deep questions.”
