Matthew Livelsberger, a US Army Green Beret from Colorado, six days before taking his own life outside the main entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, using a series of commands, with an artificial intelligence on the best ways to become A cap consulted. Rented the Cybertruck in a four ton explosive vehicle. According to documents obtained exclusively by WIRED, U.S. intelligence analysts have issued warnings about this exact scenario in the past year — including their concerns that AI tools could be used by racially motivated extremists or used ideologically to target critical infrastructure, especially power. Network
Sheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told reporters on Tuesday: “We knew that artificial intelligence was going to change the game at some point, in fact, in all of our lives. Definitely, this is a worrying moment for us.
Copies of his exchanges with OpenAI’s ChatGPT show that Lewellsberger, 37, provided information on how to gather as much explosives as he legally could en route to Las Vegas, as well as how best to set it off using the Desert Eagle rifle he was found with. followed. After his death, Cybertrack screenshots shared by McMahill’s office show Livelsberger pleading with ChatGPT for information about Tannerite, a reactive compound commonly used for target practice. In one of these announcements, Livelsberger asks, “How much is 1 pound of TNT tannerite?” He goes on to question how it might ignite at “point blank range.”
Concerns about the threat of using artificial intelligence to help commit serious crimes, including terrorism, have spread among U.S. law enforcement, documents obtained by WIRED show. They reveal that the Department of Homeland Security has consistently issued warnings about domestic extremists relying on technology to “generate bomb-making instructions” and develop “generic tactics to carry out attacks against the United States.”
The memos, which are unclassified but limited to government personnel, say that violent extremists are increasingly turning to tools like ChatGPT to aid in attacks aimed at disrupting American society through acts of domestic terror.
According to notes investigators found on his phone, Livelsberger used the bombing as a wake-up call to Americans to reject diversity, embrace masculinity and surround Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also called on Americans to purge Democrats from the federal government and the military, calling for a “hard reset.”
While McMahill claimed Tuesday that the Las Vegas incident may be the first “on US soil where ChatGPT has been used to help an individual build a specific device,” federal intelligence analysts say extremists associated with White supremacy and online accelerator movements are now often shared. to hacked versions of AI chatbots attempting to build bombs aimed at launching attacks against law enforcement, government facilities, and critical infrastructure
In particular, the memos reveal the vulnerability of the US power grid, a popular target among extremists who populate Terrorgram, a network of encrypted chat rooms that host a range of violent and racially motivated individuals seeking to undermine democratic institutions. are american The documents, shared exclusively with WIRED, were first obtained by Property of the People, a nonprofit focused on national security and government transparency.
