In an earlier version of the missive, which was shared with a number of news outlets in advance of its publication on Facebook, Zuckerberg took the idea farther. The “long-term promise of AI,” he wrote,  is that it can be used used to “identify risks that nobody would have flagged at all, including terrorists planning attacks using private channels.”

Here’s an expanded version of the quote from the Associated Press (emphasis ours).

“The long term promise of AI is that in addition to identifying risks more quickly and accurately than would have already happened, it may also identify risks that nobody would have flagged at all — including terrorists planning attacks using private channels, people bullying someone too afraid to report it themselves, and other issues both local and global. It will take many years to develop these systems.”

Click here to read more of Karissa Bell’s story from Mashable.