Kevin O'Leary, an investor who appears on ABC's (DIS) hit show Shark Tank, has an intriguing reaction to the Nashville school shootings.
The violence has shocked the nation and poses a question about whether people have viable creative ideas about finding solutions. O'Leary offers a technological one.
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"It's really hard to watch an event like this become a partisan debate. It's really, really hard," O’Leary said on Fox Business March 30. "I actually think it's triggering and going to trigger a new narrative, and this is going to be a difficult one to deal with, that could have been avoided."
O'Leary suggested that artificial intelligence tools could possibly be used to detect people with violent motives.
"Are you willing, in America, to allow AI to scrape social media and target you to law enforcement?" O'Leary asked. "If we said yes to that, those people wouldn't be dead."
"All of these shooters generally post hours before they do the deed on some social media here or there," he added. "In China, for example, a combination of face recognition with AI scraping of all the social media would identify this individual hours before they did their move into the school, and they could have been apprehended," .
In this case, messages sent by the shooter on Instagram hinted at the attack before it happened. O'Leary thinks these online conversations can be detected and that action could possibly prevent future shooting events.
For example, the shooter in Nashville wrote a message to a friend, saying, "One day this will make more sense," Audrey Hale, the shooter, wrote. "I've left behind more than enough evidence behind. But something bad is about to happen."
"We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff and beginning the process of healing," the Covenant School, where the shooting happened, said on Tuesday.
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