Using a series of prompts, six days before he died by suicide outside the main entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Matthew Leavelsbarger, a highly decorated U.S. Army Green Beret from Colorado, took advice from an artificial intelligence on how to change his life. Go. Hired a cybertruck carrying a four-ton explosive vehicle. According to documents obtained exclusively by WIRED, U.S. intelligence analysts have been issuing warnings about this exact scenario since last year — and among their concerns is that AI tools could be used by racially or ideologically motivated extremists to attack critical infrastructure. Can be used to target structures, especially lightning. Grid.
“We knew that AI was really going to change the game at some point throughout our lives,” Sheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told reporters Tuesday. “Absolutely, this is a worrying moment for us.”
Copies of his exchanges with OpenAI's ChatGPT show that 37-year-old Leavelsberger obtained information on how to collect as much explosive material as legally possible on the way to Las Vegas, as well as discovered Learned how to set it up using the Desert Eagle gun. Cybertruck after his death. Screenshots shared by McMahill's office show that Livelsberger prompted ChatGPT for information about tannerite, a reactive compound commonly used for target practice. In one such prompt, Livelsberger asks, “How much tannerite is equivalent to 1 pound of TNT?” He continues by asking how it can be ignited at “point blank range”.
Documents obtained by WIRED show that concerns about the threat of AI to help commit serious crimes, including terrorism, are spreading among US law enforcement. They point out that the Department of Homeland Security has issued frequent warnings about domestic extremists who are relying on technology to “generate bomb-making instructions” and develop “common strategies for carrying out attacks against the United States.” Are.
The memo, which is not classified but is restricted to government personnel, states that violent extremists are increasingly using tools such as ChatGate to help stage attacks aimed at dismantling American society through acts of domestic terror. Are turning towards.
according to notes Investigators discovered on his phone that Livelsberger had intended the bombing as a “wake up call” to Americans, whom he accused of rejecting diversity, embracing masculinity, and supporting President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He also urged Americans to expel Democrats from the federal government and military, calling for a “hard reset.”
While McMahill argued Tuesday that the Las Vegas incident “may be the first on American soil where ChatGPT was used to help someone create a particular device,” federal intelligence analysts say the online white Extremists associated with supremacist and accelerationist movements are now often sharing access to AI chatbots in an effort to create bombs aimed at carrying out attacks against law enforcement, government facilities, and critical infrastructure. Hacked versions.
In particular, the memos highlight the weakness of the US power grid, a popular target among militants.Terrorgram,'' a loose network of encrypted chatrooms that hosts a number of violent, racially motivated individuals bent on destroying American democratic institutions. The documents, shared exclusively with WIRED, were first obtained people's propertyA nonprofit focused on national security and government transparency.