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ISWAP Reportedly Used AI Guidance to Breach Nigerian Military Base Defenses by Motorcycle
After defensive trenches stopped an ISWAP motorcycle assault on a Nigerian military base, commanders reportedly consulted an AI chatbot for guidance on adapting motorcycle-jumping techniques to cross them. Fighters practiced the maneuver, with 18 reportedly dying during training; eight mastered it, and a subsequent assault reportedly cleared the trenches.
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2024-11-25T00:00:00.000Z
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- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2026-07-10T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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