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Singapore Teen in Foiled Stabbing Plot Reportedly Used AI Chatbot to Generate Islamic State Pledge and Call for Violence
- Occurred
- Aug 1, 2024
- Published
- Oct 18, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Singapore authorities reported that a 17-year-old supporter of the Islamic State terrorist group used an AI chatbot to generate an allegiance pledge and a declaration urging armed violence against non-Muslims. He allegedly planned to stab non-Muslim men near Tampines West Community Centre in Singapore and was arrested before the attack. The chatbot is unidentified, and the sources do not establish that it supplied operational attack advice.
Developers
- Large language model developers
- Chatbot developers
Deployers
- Terrorism suspects
- Men and boys
- Malicious actors
- ISIS supporters
- Extremists
- Chatbot users
- Boys
- Adolescents
- Adolescent boys
Harmed parties
- Non-Muslim men
- General public of Singapore
- General public
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 95%
Rationale: Terror plot foiled by authorities, involves arrest under security laws, no AI system failure or misuse described.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8