Tech article
Tool and target: US law enforcement grapple with AI-enabled terrorism and anti-tech extremism
Publisher description: From the FBI to local police departments, US authorities are increasingly warning of would-be terrorists using AI to plan attacks and anti-datacenter extremism
The Guardian | Oct 14, 2026 | Johana Bhuiyan and Nick Robins-Early
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Law enforcement officers, by contrast, have been grappling with what they fear are the present-day threats that AI enables, including violent crimes. A previously unreported cache of law enforcement and intelligence agency documents show that law enforcement agencies have, since 2021, considered AI both a tool and a target of would-be terrorists. Law enforcement has been trying to keep pace with the ways bad actors may be using AI for harm, concerned that the rapidly evolving technology may supercharge new and existing types of crimes.
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