AI incident ·
ISWAP Reportedly Used AI Guidance to Breach Nigerian Military Base Defenses by Motorcycle
On this page 6 sections
In brief
An AI system built by Chatbot Developers and Large Language Model Developers and deployed by Boko Haram, Terrorist Organizations and 2 others allegedly harmed 18 Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) Fighters, Military Of Nigeria and 3 others.
- Risk domain
- Not classified
- Occurred
- Coverage
- 2 reports
What happened
After defensive trenches stopped an ISWAP motorcycle assault on a Nigerian military base, commanders reportedly consulted an AI chatbot for guidance on adapting motorcycle-jumping techniques to cross them. Fighters practiced the maneuver, with 18 reportedly dying during training; eight mastered it, and a subsequent assault reportedly cleared the trenches.
Laws on record for this risk area
No instrument on record yet covers this risk area where it happened. See the open queue.
Matched from the record's risk category and country to the instruments in effect recorded here: a law listed covers the area, which is not a finding that it applies to this incident. A reviewer can correct the match in the repository (data/external/incident_overrides.yaml).
News reports (2)
Titles link to the original publisher; report text is not reproduced here.
Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Boko Haram, Terrorist Organizations, Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap), Non State Armed Groups
- Alleged developer
- Chatbot Developers, Large Language Model Developers
- Alleged harmed party
- 18 Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) Fighters, Military Of Nigeria, Military Personnel Of Nigeria, Soldiers, National Security And Intelligence Stakeholders
Classification (MIT AI Risk Repository taxonomy)
- Risk domain
- —
- Risk subdomain
- —
- Causal entity
- —
- Intent
- —
- Timing
- —
- Harm level
- —
- Sectors
- —
- Countries
- —
Source record: incident #1624 on the AI Incident Database · all 2 reports