LLMCritical
The Christchurch shooter and YouTube’s radicalization trap
- Occurred
- Mar 15, 2019
- Published
- Dec 12, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A New Zealand government report released following a right-wing terrorist killing 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques which indicated that Youtube's recommendation algorithm played an important role in the terrorist's radicalization.
Developers
- YouTube
Deployers
- YouTube
Harmed parties
- YouTube users
Classification
Category confidence: 70%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Algorithmic radicalization led to mass casualty event, though YouTube's system is not strictly an LLM.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8