Terrists embraced AI

[Tomasz Rola]

Oh, hell yeah...

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https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260714-how-jihadist-groups-like-boko-haram-use-ai-for-acts-of-terror

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“There is nothing we haven’t received an answer on,” one ex-jihadist told
Juelich. “We believe it knows everything.”

Instructors from Iraq, Afghanistan, North Africa and other
countries taught them the art of the prompt – that is, how to
structure requests for Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT
to elicit the most precise or helpful responses. One crucial
technique dubbed “jailbreaking” teaches users ways to formulate
questions in such a way as to bypass the ethical guidelines
programmed into different AIs – to stop them from telling users how
to make a pipe bomb, for example.

Different factions of Boko Haram quickly created their own units
specialising in AI. Armed with their own AI subscriptions, it was these
units who would respond to different fighters’ requests for information.

Through these units, fighters asked for – and received – AI-generated
advice on how to use new arms seized during their attacks, how to improve
explosives delivered via drone or even how to better plan upcoming raids.

AI, Juelich said, was increasingly being used “not just for propaganda,
but for basically an entire attack chain”.

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Tomasz Rola

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