A report by The New York Times revealed that Boko Haram terrorists used multiple AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek, for weapons making and improving operations. Former Boko Haram commanders told terrorism and technology researcher Antonia Juelich of the University of Cambridge that after an assault on a military base was frustrated by a defensive trench, the group consulted AI tools for ideas, learning how to modify motorcycles to jump over such obstacles. Mechanics altered motorcycles to improve speed and acceleration, and fighters practiced maneuvers. One former commander said: “We saw in a movie how motorcycles can jump over bridges. We used AI to learn how to do this.” Another former commander in Islamic State West Africa Province told Juelich that AI provided detailed answers to questions like “How can I build a bomb?” and that “AI told us what chemicals to put in that made the explosion heavier.” OpenAI told The New York Times that the terrorists violated its policies. Google and Anthropic said their AI models contained protections designed to refuse dangerous requests, but former insurgents said they often bypassed chatbot restrictions by disguising requests as legitimate projects.