Global Far-Right Extremist Exploitation of Artificial Intelligence and Alt-Tech: The Cases of the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand

• Published in: Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses 2024-06, Vol.16 (3), p.13-18
• Main Author: Allchorn, William
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 2382-6444

The recent public attention paid to generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential exploitation for good and malevolent purposes has not escaped the global extreme farright. In particular, extreme right groups have explored these technologies as a way to get ahead of state preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) responses in this space. This article contains findings of an exploratory content and sentiment analysis conducted by the author of 12 violent and non-violent far-right groups in the four countries under survey. Each was deemed a representative sample based on their representation of three different ideology proclivities that currently preoccupy the global far-right: racial nationalism, ethno-nationalism and cultural nationalism. Essentially, whilst public ‘chatter’ by such groups indicates very tentative inroads into and negative appraisals of AI technology, there are aspirations to both foment anxieties within non-aligned constituencies and weaponise AI for illicit propaganda, attack-planning and attack-execution activities.