Terror Groups Are Going To Use Artificial Intelligence Platforms Once They Become Available

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Defense One: Terrorists Are Going to Use Artificial Intelligence

Machine-learning technology is growing ever more accessible. Let’s not have a 9/11-style ‘failure of imagination’ about it.

There is a general tendency among counterterrorism analysts to understate rather than hyperbolize terrorists’ technological adaptations. In 2011 and 2012, most believed that the “Arab Spring” revolutions would marginalize jihadist movements. But within four years, jihadists had attracted a record number of foreign fighters to the Syrian battlefield, in part by using the same social media mobilization techniques that protesters had employed to challenge dictators like Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Hosni Mubarak, and Muammar Qaddafi.

Militant groups later combined easy accessibility to operatives via social media with new advances in encryption to create the “virtual planner” model of terrorism. This model allows online operatives to provide the same offerings that were once the domain of physical networks, including recruitment, coordinating the target and timing of attacks, and even providing technical assistance on topics like bomb-making.

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WNU editor: We are still far far away from having a true artificial platform. But terror groups have certainly been effective in using existing software tools and platforms like social media to promote their cause and to get new recruits.

Update: An interesting read .... Artificial Intelligence: The Pros and Cons and What to Fear (Defense One).