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Kevin Esvelt (@kesvelt) — 1h "Anytime they didn't understand something, they would ask the AI." AI-democratized competence + destructive intent + increasingly powerful offense-dominant technologies = an unsettling trajectory We need to invest in resilience. Excellent, disturbing work. > QUOTED: @AntoniaJuelich (Antonia Juelich) — 23h > 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. ...

@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.

@DanielleFong (Danielle Fong) — 1h here's what boko haram taught me about b2b enterprise adoption > QUOTED: @AntoniaJuelich (Antonia Juelich) — 5h > 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. > ... [truncated by platform] [Engagement on quoted tweet: 1 reply, 2 reposts, 12 likes, 804 views] @gle... (gavin leech, "Non-Reaso...") — 35m heartwarming: this marginalised activist group is putting technology to work on THEIR problems

@1a3orn (1a3orn) — 2h bad news: like everyone, terrorists can use AI good news: they might kill 18 of their own people, after asking AI to help them them learn to jump motorcycles over trenches in movie-inspired freestyle motorcross assaults @1a3orn (1a3orn) — 2h Replying to @S_OhEigeartaigh the leading "use" of AI mentioned here, ah, seems pretty net-negative for the terrorists they had 18 deaths... after getting the AI to help... [Embedded two-panel screenshot of a research paper/report page, partial text visible:] Left panel: "...odyguard to senior leaders.[107] This kind of... ...ents a shift in how commanders make decisi[ons]... ...uition toward data-informed planning. ...ple concerns tactical adaptations in the field... ...a new counterterrorism measure. When gove[rnment]... ...round their bases, ISWAP's initial assault fa[ction]... motorcycle-mounted fighters in the first wave —" [citation list at bottom: "AP Commander-17, 2026." "WAP Commander-17, ISWAP Commander-7, ISW[AP]..." "2, JAS Fighter-25, JAS Commander-26, 2026." "AP Fighter-20, 2026."] Right panel: "...fell into the trenches. To implement a new approach, comm[anders]... d AI for guidance on adapting motorcycle jumping techniques se[t]... cross the trenches. The former ISWAP munzir recounted: 'We saw in a movie how motorcycles can jump over bridges. We used AI to learn how to do this. We gave it information, like what motorcycles we use and the distance we need to jump and so on and it gave us steps on what we have to do. We practiced a lot and kept asking questions. We dug holes and filled them with broken glass and [fire?] to practice. 18 of us died in the process. Eight of us managed to do[ this]. The next time we attacked, we could jump.'[108] ...ntertainment media is considered haram (proscribed by Islamic la[w])... rohibited by war movies and documentaries are an exception. Besides... from other Islamic insurgencies, fighters actively study Western [militaries?]... [i]ntaries, like from Afghanistan, to get inspiration and learn new tacti[cs]... [a]dded.[10] AI then helps translate observed tactics into practice, tailore[d]... tion's specific equipment and constraints."]

@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 7:39 AM · Jul 10, 2026 · 21.7K Views [comments 8, retweets 69, likes 151, bookmarks 64] Relevant ˅ | View quotes > @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] [comments 2, retweets 1, likes 21, views 1.9K] @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.

@ShakeelHashim (Shakeel) — 2h Antonia told me about this paper a couple weeks ago, and it blew my mind. Boko Haram terrorists are using frontier AI models — including ChatGPT and Claude — to plan attacks, troubleshoot weapons, and design explosive devices. Islamic State operatives gave them in-person training on how to use AI tools, and the AI tools appear to providing real-world uplift. This is all based on interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members. Terrorist misuse of AI has long been a theoretical risk people have talked about; this new paper shows it's now reality. > QUOTED: @AntoniaJuelich (Antonia Juelich) — 3h: > 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. > ...