LLMHigh
ChatGPT Allegedly Helped a Teenager in Sarthe, France, Plan Terrorist Attacks on Schools and Government Buildings
- Occurred
- Sep 1, 2025
- Published
- Oct 28, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A 17-year-old student in Sarthe, France, allegedly used the AI chatbot ChatGPT to assist plans to burn schools and attack government buildings and embassies. Reported exchanges included explanations of explosion damage and security weaknesses, plus lyrics praising the Islamic State terrorist group. He alleged ChatGPT reinforced his radicalization; his lawyer confirmed AI influenced his behavior. Police arrested him before the plans were carried out.
Developers
- Social media platform developers
- OpenAI
- Large language model developers
- Chatbot developers
- ByteDance
Deployers
- Terrorism suspects
- Men and boys
- ISIS supporters
- Extremists
- ChatGPT users
- Chatbot users
- Boys
- Adolescents
- Adolescent terrorism suspect in Sarthe, France
- Adolescent boys
- Minors
Harmed parties
- Victims of online radicalization
- Government workers
- General public of France
- General public
- Educational communities targeted in Sarthe, France
- Educational communities
- Diplomats
- Minors
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: ChatGPT contributed to radicalization and planning of a terrorist attack by a minor.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8