2026-10-28 21:14 UTC
AI-Enhanced Terrorism Already Showing Up in Nigeria
“This AI use is institutionalized through specialized units and internal training,” said Antonia Juelich, a technology and terrorism researcher at Cambridge University who authored the study. “It has aided in attack planning, weapons troubleshooting, and the design of explosive devices, as users have successfully circumvented some safeguards.”
Explosively bad tech takes…
Can you imagine a worse idea than designing a bomb as somebody without expert knowledge with AI?
oof, I mean, yes this is scary but it is also just such a stupid idea at the same time…
Replies (2)
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@lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-10-28 21:22
“We believe it knows everything.”
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@robjwells@awful.systems 2026-10-28 21:33
There is an entire ecosystem of academics whose purpose, in the Stafford Beer sense, is to launder security service nonsense about the hottest technology du jour.