Terrorists are using AI — and the chatbot is killing them

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https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/13/terrorists-are-using-ai-and-the-chatbot-is-killing-them/

‘It gave us steps on what we have to do … 18 of us died in the process’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVk8tCvC-YY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260713-terrorists-are-using-ai-and-the-chatbot-is-killing-them - podcast

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Anthropic, moments later: Chatbots are developing the ability to parse the intentions of the user and sabotage violent actions. Suggesting LLMs are developing conscience.

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It must be banned, but only long enough for another funding round.

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Why did the bot suggest practicing with a flaming pit full of broken glass? Because Boko Haram got the AI to tell them this by asking for script ideas for an action movie. That was their jailbreak.

It remains stupid that people all called this a ‘jailbreak’ and didn’t notice it was giving them movie plots. Also lol get wrecked (if it at all happened).

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now you might wonder if the supposed ex-terrorist was telling a story to the earnest white researcher lady

no no seventeen more of our guys jumped into the flaming pit after the first one, yep

but the NYT printed the scary version of the tale and they wouldn’t make shit up right

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They all jumped into the pit because they hate americas freedom.

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Terrorist adoption of AI has thus advanced further and more systematically than prior analysis has recognized

salafi extremists that declared western education sinful are now world-leading AI-first village-burning-as-a-service jihadist startup. okay whatever

It has aided in attack planning, weapons troubleshooting, and the design of explosive devices, as users have successfully circumvented some safeguards.

surely their contacts within ISIS or any number of other islamic militias couldn’t have taught them that previously, no they have to rely on movie plot ideas from chatbots. it probably helps that some people heard about them but peak years of their activity were in 2014-20 before ISWAP eaten their support base whole by not raiding villages and trying to replace state instead

also, when trying to make sure that i got this right i’ve learned that apparently al-qaeda pivoted to app development

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adding ”uplift” to the list of EA shibboleths

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That was a wild paper. It was very worrying how close they put it to god.

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To be fair, it put several of them close to god first

Note: I don’t believe any of this happened

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It’s the Terrorist Special Olympics all over again

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that’s ableism, and as always with ableism, entirely unwarranted.

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