Artificial intelligence linked to Bin Laden raid is being used to find future threats

After raiding Usama Bin Laden's compound, the government used artificial intelligence to discover future al-Qaida plans. That CIA-led raid took place on May 2, 2011, killing Bin Laden, America's most wanted terrorist and the founder of al-Qaida, the group responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. "The large quantity of materials collected from the compound required time for a thorough review," the CIA said in a report about the raid, adding the agency "led a multi-agency task force to prioritize, catalogue, and analyze them for intelligence about al-Qa ida's affiliates, plans and intentions and current threats." Among those materials was a treasure trove of documents, according to Brian Drake, Defense Intelligence Agency's Science and Technology director of artificial intelligence, who spoke during a recent U.S. Department of Defense video conference. The Defence Intelligence Agency's (DIA) National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC) worked with the CIA, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and others to collect the data.