‘Boko Haram uses AI to make bombs, plot operations’

A report by The New York Times has revealed how Boko Haram terrorists turned to artificial intelligence, AI, for weapons making, including bombs, as well as improving their operations generally.

Former insurgents, the report noted, used multiple AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek.

According to the report, former Boko Haram commanders told terrorism and technology researcher, Antonia Juelich of the University of Cambridge, that after an assault on a military base was frustrated by a defensive trench, the group consulted AI tools for ideas.

That was when they learned how to modify motorcycles to jump over such obstacles.

Their mechanics altered motorcycles for speed and acceleration, and fighters practised manoeuvres before operations.

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