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Lawfare Daily: How Terrorist Groups are Using Artificial Intelligence

Daniel Byman, Tricia Bacon, Antonia Juelich
Tuesday, September 1, 2026, 7:00 AM
Discussing the risk of catastrophic AI-enabled terrorism.
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Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Tricia Bacon, professor at American University, and Antonia Juelich, International Security Lead at the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy (CASP), to talk about how different terrorist groups are using artificial intelligence and how governments are employing AI to fight them. They discuss how Boko Haram and other terrorist groups are using AI to become more deadly, terrorist group problems with using AI, the risk of catastrophic AI-enabled terrorism, and what governments and companies need to do better.

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Daniel Byman

Daniel Byman

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Daniel Byman is a professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the director of the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.
Tricia Bacon

Tricia Bacon

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Tricia Bacon is a professor at American University’s School of Public Affairs and School of International Service, and is also a nonresident senior associate with the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She was formerly a foreign affairs officer at the U.S. State Department. She is the co-author of “Terror in Transition: Leadership and Succession Terrorist Organizations” (Columbia University Press, 2022) and author of “The Counterinsurgency Dilemma: Foreign Fighter Influence on Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Somalia” (Stanford University Press, 2026).
Antonia Juelich

Antonia Juelich

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Antonia Juelich is the international security lead at the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy.
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