Link: https://adf-magazine.com/2026/10/ai-enhanced-terrorism-already-showing-up-in-nigeria/

“This AI use is institutionalized through specialized units and internal training,” said Antonia Juelich, a technology and terrorism researcher at Cambridge University who authored the study. “It has aided in attack planning, weapons troubleshooting, and the design of explosive devices, as users have successfully circumvented some safeguards.”

Explosively bad tech takes......

Can you imagine a worse idea than designing a bomb as somebody without expert knowledge with AI?

oof, I mean, yes this is scary but it is also just such a stupid idea at the same time it is also just as likely to kill you or end up like this...

edit or more accurately this

“We believe it knows everything.”

There is an entire ecosystem of academics whose purpose, in the Stafford Beer sense, is to launder security service nonsense about the hottest technology du jour.

Well yeah except also the military industrial complex in my country can be just as dumb, I don't mean this as a unique bash of these people, but rather the idea of using a tool you cannot consistently trust with vital decisions for war and safety.