Jihadists and AI

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BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

How Jihadists wrestle with the question: to use or not to use. The allure of this powerful tool and the damage they fear it could inflict on their image and reputation. Supporters of the Islamic State group tend to be early adopters of new tech, and some have already experimented with generative Artificial Intelligence. But that has exposed deep divisions in jihadist circles. The Global Jigsaw explores this debate to understand what “responsible AI” means for them.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:13.0	I'm very concerned that we are accelerating on a road that we've never been.
0:19.7	We could lose control very easily.
0:22.6	My worst fear is that we, the industry, cause significant harm to the world.
0:27.5	I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong.
0:32.1	AI could give weapons to terrorists in create new pandemics.
0:37.3	It could upend geopolitical stability.
0:40.5	We are not equipped to deal with this.
0:43.3	Two men who have something to say about the dangers of artificial intelligence.
0:48.4	Sam Altman is the creator of Chad GPT and Joshua Benjillo is described as one of the godfathers of AI.
0:55.9	The potential of this tech in the hands of bad actors has also been on the radar of BBC
1:01.3	monitoring's jihadist media team.
1:04.4	IS supporters are very early adopters of tech generally in the past and a lot of them
1:09.6	particularly younger ones are very tech savvy.
1:12.1	Sympathizers of the Islamic State Group and Al-Qaeda have been eyeing the tech for a while.
1:18.0	They've had lots of publications encouraging their followers and saying that this is important.
1:23.2	You have to learn about AI.
1:25.7	There were IS fans saying, why don't we use AI?
1:28.6	This is a real boon to us.
1:30.1	This is a way we can spread the messaging.
1:31.9	We can reach a much younger audience, a much wider audience.
1:35.3	So what machine-generated jihadist material is out there?
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