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A previously unreported cache of law enforcement and intelligence agency documents show that law enforcement agencies have, since 2021, considered AI both a tool and a target of would-be terrorists. Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images A previously unreported cache of law enforcement and intelligence agency documents show that law enforcement agencies have, since 2021, considered AI both a tool and a target of would-be terrorists. Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images Tool and target: US law enforcement grapple with AI-enabled terrorism and anti-tech extremism From the FBI to local police departments, US authorities are increasingly warning of would-be terrorists using chatbots to plan attacks and anti-AI extremist threats In May 2025, a 25-year-old man detonated a car bomb outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic, killing himself and injuring four others. For many, it was a wake up call about the threats to reproductive care facilities. For the FBI, though, it was also a sign of what the agency had feared for years: bad actors were using generative AI to plan and execute terror plots. The suspect used an unnamed generative AI tool that failed to detect his request for bomb-making instructions, law enforcement officers wrote in a previously unreported document reviewed by the Guardian. The privacy of his conversation with the AI chatbot hindered alerting police that someone was looking up how to make a bomb, according to the memo. FBI officers fear the scenario is set to repeat itself: “Threat actors will likely increase their use of GenAI tools for attack planning,” said the memo, which was distributed by the bureau’s Los Angeles division in May 2026. “Current built-in GenAI safeguards are insufficient to prevent illicit use as malicious actors successfully employ ‘jailbreaking’ techniques to access dangerous information.” AI executives and staff at leading AI companies have focused their public remarks on potential doomsday scenarios, a long-term, hypothetical harm of the technology they’re developing. Law enforcement officers, by contrast, have been grappling with what they fear are the present-day threats that AI enables, including violent crimes. A previously unreported cache of law enforcement and intelligence agency documents show that law enforcement agencies have, since 2021, considered AI both a tool and a target of would-be terrorists. Law enforcement has been trying to keep pace with the ways bad actors may be using AI for harm, concerned that the rapidly evolving technology may supercharge new and existing types of crimes. At the same time, as public sentiment over AI and its impacts on society and the environment has soured, agencies have sought to protect AI infrastructure. The documents show police and intelligence officers are closely monitoring online opposition to datacenters among various groups with what they describe as extremist ideologies. US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them Read more The Guardian exclusively reviewed more than 80 documents and memos that were distributed among a nationwide network of federal, state and local law enforcement offices – including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the FBI and the New York City police department (NYPD) – between 2021 and 2026. They were obtained by government transparency non-profit Property of the People and shared with the Guardian. In these documents, officers discussed: How extremists could use AI to devise attacks and recruit new members How AI could be used to disseminate and produce everything from deepfakes to election misinformation and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) How people seeking information on how to make weaponry or bombs could use AI to circumvent police detection How to ensure that officers could take advantage of AI tools in policing, for things like social media monitoring, while managing public concern over the use of these tools Monitoring social media for opposition to AI and potential extremist attacks on datacenters The FBI did not respond to detailed questions on its monitoring of anti-AI sentiment and use of AI, but pointed to a general fact sheet on the agency’s use of the technology. The NYPD stated that its threat analysis report on artificial intelligence was related to the “AI 2027” project – an influential forecast from several AI researchers that speculated about the technology’s rapid growth and the threats it could present. In one of the project’s possible futures, it predicted bioweapon-armed drones wiping out humanity. “This NYPD Intelligence Analysis Report contained a summary and assessment of AI 2027,” the NYPD said. “It was distributed to appropriate NYPD members and partners for their awareness, as part of the Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau’s mission of analyzing developments and trends that have implications for public safety and national security.” DHS said it “prioritizes the safety and security of Americans and remains committed to mitigating all forms of ideologically-motivated violence”, and regularly shares intelligence with state and local law enforcement related to threats from violent extremists. “DHS threat assessments draw on available intelligence, law-enforcement information, and other reporting to inform partners of evolving threats,” DHS said in a statement. “DHS assesses that malicious actors may seek to use artificial intelligence to enhance existing harmful activities, including cyber-enabled activity, fraud schemes, and the production or dissemination of violent extremist propaganda”. Tech-enabled terrorism and anti-tech extremism Law enforcement’s concerns over AI and extremism fall into two broad categories, the documents show. One focuses on the burgeoning threat of extremists using new tools such as generative AI to plot attacks or promote their ideology. The other involves extremists targeting the modern technology that underpins society and has a long history within far-right movements. Before mainstream, widespread opposition to datacenters swept the US, there was a strain of violent extremism that targeted tech facilities and other critical infrastructure, hoping such terrorism could lead to the collapse of society and instigate a race war. Law enforcement officers expressed concern over the threat these militias posed to datacenters’ security before the 2022 launch of ChatGPT. Several bulletins, such as an October 2021 joint threat analysis from DHS, National Counterterrorism Center and FBI, highlighted a plot by Seth Pendley, a January 6 rioter and far-right militia member, to blow up an Amazon Web Services facility. “Pendley believed a successful attack on the Amazon facility would disrupt 70 percent of Internet service, expose perceived abuses of power, and lead to revolution,” the bulletin said. Pendley pleaded guilty to a charge of malicious attempt to destroy a building with an explosive and was sentenced in 2021 to 10 years in prison for plotting the attack. Although law enforcement has long tracked extremist militia threats to infrastructure like Pendley’s, the documents show that in the years since the generative AI boom began, agencies more frequently expressed concern over anti-tech and anti-datacenter sentiment. Multiple fusion centers – law enforcement hubs for collecting information and coordinating between agencies – around the US warned of growing threats from domestic violent extremists – pointing to posts across social media platforms, messaging apps and forums like 4chan in which commenters vowed to destroy datacenters. “I bring a sort of ‘tannerite and gasoline’ vibe to ai data centers,” an account associated with a white supremacist posted on Facebook last year, according to a 2025 Philadelphia police department intelligence bulletin. Combining gasoline with Tannerite, a brand of well-known explosive compound, produces a large and fiery detonation. On some far-right forums, users discussed killing CEOs of AI companies and local officials who support datacenters, agents warned, as well as arson and bombing attacks against data facilities. Law enforcement also monitored real-world anti-datacenter incidents or protests, including a demonstration in Michigan in March where the documents said that three people allegedly associated with a white supremacist group held a banner opposing what they called a “Jewish data center” being built in the state. As opposition to artificial intelligence and datacenters have become more widespread, however, questions have risen over how law enforcement agencies’ tracking anti-datacenter and anti-tech ideology may bleed over into surveillance of nonviolent protest movements. Distrust of the AI industry and mobilization against datacenters has now become so prevalent that it is a mainstream issue of the midterm elections, far from an extremist position. The documents show agencies casting a wide net as they track opposition to the tech industry, including broadly monitoring public social media and opposition such as proposed legislation against datacenters. In a Nevada Threat Analysis Center report from April 2026, law enforcement cited a local city council hearing on a datacenter moratorium as part of a trend of increased negative sentiment towards the facilities. Demonstrators hold signs during a protest against artificial intelligence outside Open AI’s headquarter offices in San Francisco, California, on 11 July 2026. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images “The Reno City Council heard a strong public opposition to data center development in the area. The concerns focused on water consumption, rising utility costs, pollution, and long-term climate impacts,” the document said. Some experts and activists have expressed concern that as mobilization against datacenters grows, peaceful anti-AI organizations could face surveillance from authorities. “There’s nothing extreme about not wanting to lose your livelihood to AI, your drinking water to AI datacenters, your privacy to ubiquitous AI surveillance or your life to runaway rogue AI,” said Ryan Shapiro, executive director of Property of the People. “What’s extreme is the law enforcement treating these legitimate objections as threats to be neutralized.” The ‘rising threat’ of AI In the months after OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in 2022, law enforcement across the US began to pay attention to the way the novel technology was being used. Even in its infancy, the tool could produce images that were indistinguishable from “authentic images”, according to one May 2023 law enforcement document. Police in Minnesota and in California worried that function could exacerbate problems with child sexual abuse material (CSAM), deepfakes and “terrorist propaganda materials”. At the time, many of these risks were largely theoretical in the eyes of law enforcement, the documents show. In one memo distributed by two California intelligence centers, officials warned that officers should remain vigilant because they predicted AI may one day make it easier to circumvent CSAM detection methods, that it may be used to produce and disseminate deepfakes and that it may increase the volume of propaganda. But as generative AI expanded in both its capabilities and reach, so too did law enforcement concerns about the types of crimes it could enable. By April 2024, the DHS’s intelligence department sent out a memo suggesting, without citations or evidence, that foreign terrorist organizations and domestic violent extremists who were “presumably US based persons” had “successfully bypassed generative Al guardrails” in order to generate bomb-making instructions and “general tactics for conducting attacks against the United States”. Warnings about the ways violent extremists exploit AI grew in their intensity in 2025. Individuals and malicious groups across the US were weaponizing AI tools “to spread hate speech, recruit new members, and radi [truncated for AI cost control]