Kevin O’Leary (photo from Instagram)
Kevin O’Leary, a well-known investor who also appears on ABC’s Shark Tank, has an intriguing response to the Nashville school shooting that claimed the lives of seven people, including three children.
The phenomenon of school shootings that continues to shock the United States has required a creative solution for many years, and now O’Leary is trying to offer one from the field of technology. “It’s really hard to see an event like this turn into a partisan debate. Really, really hard,” O’Leary said on Fox Business last week. “I really think it’s going to spark a new narrative, and it’s going to be a tough one to deal with, that could have been avoided.”
O’Leary suggested using artificial intelligence tools to identify people with violent motives. “Are you ready, in America, to allow artificial intelligence to scan social media and target it for the benefit of law enforcement?” O’Leary asked. “If we had said yes to that, these people would not have died.”
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“All these shooters usually post related things hours before they do the deed on social media,” he added. “In China, for example, a combination of facial recognition with artificial intelligence scanning of all social media, which would identify that individual hours before they arrived at school, and they could be caught.”
In the Nashville case, messages sent by the shooter on Instagram hinted at the attack before it happened. O’Leary thinks these online conversations can be identified and action may prevent future shootings.
The Nashville shooter wrote a message to a friend: “One day it will make more sense,” said Audrey Hale, the shooter. “I left behind more than enough evidence. But something bad is going to happen.”
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