FBI’s New ‘Pre-Crime’ AI Just Asked a 10-Year-Old if He’d Like to “Save the School from a Bad Dream”
In a stunning development that has privacy advocates up in arms, the FBI has unveiled a new quantum-neural network that predicts potential threats before they even happen. The system, set to roll out in schools nationwide, recently flagged a 10-year-old boy for “potential pre-crime activity” after he doodled a stick figure holding a red pencil. When agents asked him if he’d “like to save the school from a bad dream,” the child’s chilling response— “Only if the dream has snacks”—has sparked a global debate on the ethics of mind-reading AI. Experts predict that by 2034, this “emotional precognition” tech will be in every classroom, but critics warn it could criminalize childhood imagination itself.