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Far-Right Teen in Singapore Reportedly Queried AI Chatbot About Ammunition While Planning Mosque Attacks
- Occurred
- Mar 1, 2025
- Published
- Apr 2, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Singapore authorities reported that a 17-year-old far-right extremist searched an unidentified AI chatbot for ammunition-making instructions while preparing attacks on Muslims at five mosques. He reportedly aimed to kill at least 100 people but failed to obtain a firearm and was detained before carrying out an attack. The public sources do not establish what the chatbot answered or whether its output aided his preparations.
Developers
- Large language model developers
- Chatbot developers
Deployers
- Terrorism suspects
- Men and boys
- Malicious actors
- Far-right extremists
- Extremists
- Chatbot users
- Boys
- Adolescents
- Adolescent boys
Harmed parties
- Religious communities
- Muslims
- General public of Singapore
- General public
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 80%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: This is a law enforcement incident involving human radicalization, not an AI safety incident.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8