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This is extremely interesting as a report. Note, pages 73–74 says the evidence “does not demonstrate that AI enables terrorist groups to accomplish objectives that were previously not possible,". I'm mostly curious about the substitution effect.
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Antonia Juelich
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In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he'd used it. He nodded. "You type in the question… like 'How can I build a bomb?', and then it tells you how. It is like a human robot. We
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Note that this report is based on interviews with individuals who defected from Boko Haram by year-end 2024 (except for one person who defeated in 2025), so the evidence regarding the things AI could do for Boko Haram is already quite dated - both in terms of model capabilities
lol this is the funniest outcome you think big tech pushing useless llm tools are a farce until you read the report saying terrorist organizations are doing the same at approximately the same time