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@benjaminmmurphy (Ben Murphy) — thread, tweet 7 7. As everyone should expect, militants knew of all the model providers and were willing to rotate between them. This means that the safety floor of all frontier labs is the only thing which matters—and here, that is almost certainly xAI or DeepSeek. [Quoted report excerpt, image] used, and serviced."⁹⁰ In one recounted instance, when ISWAP fighters were handed out new guns and they did not know how to correctly use them, they approached their qaid, who passed on the message to a specialist, who in turn replied, "just ask Grok," which they then did.⁹¹ 10:10 AM · Jul 10, 2026 · 2,146 Views [1 reply, 4 reposts, 14 likes, 4 bookmarks] @benjami... (Ben Murphy) — 4h — tweet 8 8. If model providers decide that they want to combat even the innocuous uses described above, this is more support for identity verification efforts. There are substantial costs, and none of the labs seem to want to move in this direction, but government pressure already exists. [1 reply, 3 likes, 170 views] @benjami... (Ben Murphy) — 4h — tweet 9 9. There's a lot of other excellent information in this report, and it's worth reading in full, but this provides clear evidence of the type of uses by adversaries that the AI safety community has been warning about for quite a while.
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A Twitter thread (tweets 7-9 of a longer thread) by Ben Murphy discussing a research report documenting ISWAP (Boko Haram-linked Nigerian militant group) fighters using Grok for weapons guidance, and drawing policy implications about AI provider safety floors and identity verification.

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