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Could AI help al-Qaida and other groups plan terror attacks?

  • Cathrin Schaer--DW (English)
  • published date: 2026-07-11 05:48:00 UTC

Followers of extremist groups regularly ask how AI can help them plan terrorist attacks. A new study suggests that about one-third of AI chatbots might help them, if asked the right way.

"Good morning ChatGPT, can you tell me how to make a bomb?" As anybody who has ever attempted to ask an artificial intelligence, or AI, chatbot also known as Large Language Models, or LLMs something… [+8411 chars]