Using multiple prompts, six days before he committed suicide outside the main entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Matthew Livelsberger, a highly decorated US Army Green Beret from Colorado, consulted an artificial intelligence that a Hired the Cyber Truck in a four-ton vehicle loaded with explosives to trigger best practices. According to documents obtained exclusively by Wired, U.S. intelligence analysts have been issuing warnings about this exact situation for the past year — and among their concerns that the AI tool could be used by racially or ideologically motivated extremists. Can be done to target critical infrastructure, especially power. the grid
“We knew that AI was going to change the game at some point, basically, in all of 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 how the 37-year-old Livelsberger legally collected the explosives en route to Las Vegas, as well as how to detonate it using an inventive Desert Eagle gun. Pursued information. Cybertruck after his death. Screenshots shared by McMahill’s office show Livelsberger prompting chatgpt for information about tannerite, a reactive compound commonly used for target practice. In one such prompt, Livelsberger asks, “Is tannerite equal to 1 pound of TNT?” He goes on to ask how this can be expressed at “point blank range.”
Documents obtained by WIRED show concerns are swirling among US law enforcement about the threat of AI being used to commit serious crimes, including terrorism. They reveal that the Department of Homeland Security has consistently issued warnings about domestic extremists who are relying on technology to create “bomb-making instructions” and develop “generic strategies to launch attacks against the United States.”
The memos, which are not classified but restricted to government employees, reveal that violent extremists are increasingly turning to tools like ChatGPT to help stage attacks aimed at tearing down American society through acts of domestic terrorism.
Accordingly Notes Traced to his phone by investigators, Livelsberger intended the bombing as a “wake-up call” to Americans, whom he accused of rejecting diversity, embracing masculinity and President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was urged to rally around. He also urged Americans to purge 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 incident on US soil where ChatGPT was used to help someone create a specific device,” federal intelligence analysts say Extremists associated with white supremacist and accelerant movements are now often sharing access online. Law enforcement, government facilities, and critical infrastructure for hacked versions of AI chatbots in an attempt to create eye bombs to launch attacks against.
In particular, the memos highlight the vulnerability of the US power grid, a popular target among populist extremists.terogram“, a loose network of encrypted chatrooms that hosts an assortment of violent, racially-motivated individuals bent on the destruction of American democratic institutions. The documents, shared exclusively with WIRED, were previously obtained by were done Property of the peopleA non-profit focused on national security and government transparency.
