ISWAP Reportedly Used AI Guidance to Breach Nigerian Military Base Defenses by Motorcycle
After defensive trenches stopped an ISWAP motorcycle assault on a Nigerian military base, commanders reportedly consulted an AI chatbot for guidance on adapting motorcycle-jumping techniques to cross them. Fighters practiced the maneuver, with 18 reportedly dying during training; eight mastered it, and a subsequent assault reportedly cleared the trenches.
- Date it happened
- 2024-11-25
- Organisation involved
- Boko Haram, Terrorist organizations, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), Non-state armed groups
- Product, system or model
- Chatbots, Large language models
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