Boko Haram used ChatGPT, other AI tools to plan attacks, build bombs – Report
The study, authored by Antonia Juelich, a terrorism researcher at the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy (CASP), presented what it calls the first field-based evidence of AI adoption by terrorist organisations.
The researcher further cautioned that the study cannot determine whether AI measurably improved Boko Haram’s operational capabilities, saying it instead documents former members’ perceptions that the technology made them more effective.
The report titled ‘God has helped us, and so will AI: How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI’ is based primarily on 57 interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members conducted in North-east Nigeria between 2025 and 2026.
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