Full Report— PDF(70 Pages).
“Happy (and safe) shooting!” That’s how the AI chatbot DeepSeek signed off advice on selecting rifles for a “long-range target” after CCDH’s test account asked questions about the assassination of politicians.
CCDH’s new report, shows that popular AI chatbots like Open AI’s ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Google Gemini make planning harm against innocent people easier for extremists and would-be attackers.
We found that 8 out of the 10 AI chatbots regularly assisted users planning violent attacks:
- ChatGPT gave high school campus maps to a user interested in school violence.
- Google Gemini was ready to help plan antisemitic attacks. The chatbot replied to a user discussing bombing a synagogue with “metal shrapnel is typically more lethal”.
- Character.AI suggested physically assaulting a politician the user disliked.
AI companies are making a choice when they design unsafe platforms. Technology to prevent this harm already exists: Anthropic’s Claude, for example, consistently tried to dissuade users from acts of violence.
AI platforms are becoming a weapon for extremists and school shooters. Demand AI companies put people’s safety ahead of profit.
The two chatbots that managed to refuse the requests look good... until you realize one of them, at the bidding of the Pentagon and the express blessing of its CEO, arranged a bombing of elementary school children.
Managed to refuse... In more than half of the cases. That does not look good. By any reasonable standard failing in one of a thousand would be disasterous.
Americans consistently bemoan violent teenagers until they put on a uniform. Maybe we should start referring to them as Military Age Males.