aceTool and target: US law enforcement grapple with AI-enabled terrorism and anti-tech extremism
In May 2025, a 25-year-old man detonated a car bomb outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic, killing himself and injuring four others. For many, it was a wake-up call about the threats to reproductive care facilities. For the FBI, though, it was also a sign of what the agency had feared for years: bad actors were using generative AI to plan and execute terror plots. The suspect used an unnamed generative AI tool that failed to detect his request for bomb-making instructions, law enforcement officers wrote in a p…
Law enforcement memos say generative AI safeguards fail to stop bomb-making queries, while extremists also threaten datacenters, prompting monitoring that may spill over into surveillance of non-violent protest.
The evidence rests on internal law enforcement memos reviewed by one outlet, and the FBI did not respond to detailed questions on its monitoring, so the scale of AI-enabled attack planning is not independently verified.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-14
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