CASP Report Documents How Boko Haram Operationalized Frontier AI for Attack Planning

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A new CASP report ('God has helped us, and so will AI') based on semi-structured interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members in northeast Nigeria across 2025–2026 documents institutionalized use of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek for attack planning, IED design, weapons troubleshooting, and post-attack review, with users circumventing some model safeguards. Islamic State operatives reportedly delivered in-person AI training to the ISWAP faction between 2023–2025. It reached the Hacker News front page (229 points, 202 comments) and is the most concrete field evidence yet of frontier-AI misuse by an active terror group.