United States, Nationwide
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
AI-enhanced tip processing (large language model summaries of web tips), supplied by Palantir Technologies
OperationalOfficial publicationPAI-28D2CA0E
- Body
- US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Country
- United States
- Area
- Nationwide
- Technology
- AI-enhanced tip processing (large language model summaries of web tips)
- Supplier
- Palantir Technologies
- Status
- Operational
In routine use by the named body, on the evidence of a public source. - Stage
- In use now
- Since
- May 2025
- Legal basis
- Not stated in the source
- Oversight
- Listed in the DHS 2025 AI Use Case Inventory (DHS-2515), where it is classed as not high-impact
- Evidence
- Official publication
Police force, government department or public body publication - Source
- Office of Management and Budget, 2025 federal AI use case inventory (DHS-2515)
- Last checked
- Record code
PAI-28D2CA0E
Notes
The DHS 2025 AI Use Case Inventory (entry DHS-2515, as consolidated by the Office of Management and Budget) lists "AI-Enhanced ICE Tip Processing" as deployed, with an operational date of 2 May 2025, bought from Palantir and authorised to operate on the Case Management & Analytics system. The entry says it addresses "the time-consuming manual effort required to review and categorize incoming tips": a large language model adds to each tip submitted through the web form a short summary in English (a "BLUF", bottom line up front) and a recommended case category, chosen only from a predefined list of Homeland Security Investigations case categories, and analysts can have non-English tips translated into English. It says the models are commercially available, were not further trained on agency data and interact with tip submissions in operation, and DHS records the use as not high-impact. WIRED (28 January 2026, updated 29 January) reported the same inventory entry and a DHS statement that the software is "being actively authorized" to support ICE operations. This record is separate from the Palantir case management, ImmigrationOS and ELITE systems recorded elsewhere on the tracker.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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AI-enhanced tip processing (large language model summaries of web tips) elsewhere in United States
See them in the tracker| Deployment | Country | Supplier | Since | Status | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drug Enforcement AdministrationAI triage and summarisation of open-source foreign reporting | United StatesNationwide (Office of National Security Intelligence) | Developed and vetted by a US Intelligence Community element outside the DEA and DOJ (not named) | — | Operational | |
| Executive Office for United States AttorneysConduit AI document review platform (pilot) | United StatesNationwide | Conductor | — | Trial |