@AntoniaJuelich (Antonia Juelich) — Follow
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 used it a lot."
My new study on how the jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI with @CamAISciPolicy, covered today in @nytimes 🧵/9
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@AntoniaJuelich (Antonia Juelich) — 3h
2/9 Over 2025–26 I conducted 57 in-person interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members about the group's use of frontier AI from 2023 up to mid-2025.
I found that Boko Haram's factions use frontier AI systems (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek) in combat and [Show more]
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@AntoniaJuelich (Antonia Juelich) — 3h
3/9 For context: Boko Haram is among the world's deadliest jihadist terrorist organizations; and its faction Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) is among the Islamic State's most active affiliates globally.
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