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Before Las Vegas, Intel Analysts Warned That Bomb Makers Were Turning to AI
Authorities say that before a Green Beret blew up a Cybertruck in front of the Trump International Hotel, he consulted ChatGPT—exactly the scenario police have been warned of for the past year.
Using a series of prompts six days before he died by suicide outside the main entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Matthew Livelsberger, a highly decorated US Army Green Beret from Colorado, consulted with an artificial intelligence on the best ways to turn a rented Cybertruck into a four-ton vehicle-borne explosive. While McMahill contended Tuesday that the incident in Las Vegas may be the first “on US soil where ChatGPT was utilized to help an individual build a particular device,” federal intelligence analysts say extremists associated with white supremacist and accelerationist movements online are now frequently sharing access to hacked versions of AI chatbots in an effort to construct bombs with an eye to carrying out attacks against law enforcement, government facilities, and critical infrastructure. Another series of internal security bulletins obtained by Shapiro’s organization show growing concern among US intelligence analysts focused on domestic threats, including the continued spread of publications authored by the Terrorgram collective—manuals that instruct users to become “suicidal lone wolves,” “launch rockets at the Capitol building,” and target “power substations, communications towers, and other vital infrastructure.”
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