Terrorists are using AI — and the chatbot is killing them

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

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).

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

adding ”uplift” to the list of EA shibboleths

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

It’s the Terrorist Special Olympics all over again