Are there any startups that aim to fight/prevent terrorism in any way, on any level, be it government or personal? Predict it or deal with consequences more effectively?
Start by reading up on "open source intelligence," which is just a fancy way of saying "a whole bunch of web scraping." There's a lot of info you can gather from scraping public/semi-public data sources, applying some automated analysis, and overlaying info on maps. Then all you've got to do is find a government agency willing to pay you for it.<p>Or maybe you could build an army of twitter bots, write some sockpuppet management software, and sell that... I hear the US is lagging behind its enemies in that regard.
This would be like what, NSA as a service?<p>It seems like a very tough problem to me.<p>You would probably be best to narrow the scope of the problem, like, "ok I want to predict the probability of an attack happening on just one train station."<p>Then you would need real time data of everyone coming and going. Real time data of metal detectors, fluid detectors, contents of garbage bags, pressure plates on floors and walls (for bags that are left behind).<p>There are a lot of vision, AI, GPS, demographic data problems that would all go into solving this problem. And there will be a ridiculous amount of false positives.<p>You probably would be better off training AI to identify needles in haystacks, or flakes of gold in a pan