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.
Exactly. They won’t actually change the models because they don’t understand the relationship between the input and output enough to actually target responses like this. So what they will do is add an administrative filter layer on top, but it will always be something can work around because that is the nature of that kind of filter. The whole engine is still accessibile.