The FBI office responsible for maintaining the terrorist watch list is pursuing an artificial intelligence system designed for pre-crime policing, according to procurement documents obtained by Reason. In March, the FBI's procurement division issued a request for information from vendors to develop advanced predictive AI capabilities for the Threat Screening Center (TSC), formerly known as the Terrorist Screening Center.

The TSC, established in 2003 under Bush's Homeland Security Presidential Directive-6, consolidates all government terrorist watch lists into a single center staffed 24/7 to respond to law enforcement and intelligence queries. While most names on the TSC list are foreign nationals linked to jihadist groups, fewer than 10,000 Americans were listed at the start of President Donald Trump's second term.

The new AI system is expected to leverage enriched enterprise datasets with traceable source attribution to build predictive models. It will analyze new data for pattern alignment and attribute correlation against existing records to identify additional relevant information across federated systems. This effort coincides with the TSC's shifting focus toward domestic dissent, including extremism related to migration, race, gender, and hostility toward traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.

The TSC also supports federal, state, local, tribal, and international law enforcement partners, sharing surveillance data and overseeing the no-fly list at airports, as reported by the Government Accountability Office earlier this year. The center requires enhanced technical solutions to automate time-intensive manual tasks involving large volumes of data.

As reported by Reason for Deeper States, the fund supporting these efforts is under investigation by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's National Counterterrorism Center, which forwards nominations to the TSC.

FBI official Patel stated on Fox News, "I've got every major tech company in the world embedded in the FBI, rebuilding our internet capabilities, our classified systems, and the ability for artificial intelligence to be in our counterterrorism program so we can get instantaneous results."

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