Autonomous car bombs, online recruitment: Experts worry how AI can transform terrorism [Video]

Experts worry that terrorists will find novel and problematic uses for artificial intelligence (AI), including new methods of delivering explosives and improving their online recruitment initiatives. 

“The reality is that AI can be extremely dangerous if used with malicious intent,” Antonia Marie De Meo, director of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, wrote in a report looking at how terrorists might use AI. 

“With a proven track record in the world of cybercrime, it is a powerful tool that could conceivably be employed to further facilitate terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism,” she added, citing self-driving car bombs, augmenting cyberattacks or finding easier paths to spread hate speech or incite violence online.

The report, “Algorithms and Terrorism: The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence for Terrorist Purposes,” concludes that law enforcement …