How ISIS and Al-Qaeda Are Using AI to Target American Jews [Video]

A digital safety coalition told Newsweek that artificial intelligence (AI) has enhanced content for lone-wolf terrorist attacks by ISIS and Al-Qaeda against Jewish communities in the United States.

“The trend is unmistakable,” Marc Ginsberg, a former U.S. ambassador and the president of the Coalition for a Safer Web, told Newsweek. “That is a whole new level of threat that I don’t think anybody understands or appreciates how sophisticated the penetration operation has really become.”

Newsweek reached out to the Department of Homeland Security via email for comment.

Why It Matters

In the year following the October 7, 2023, attack by Palestinian militant group Hamas in Israel, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has counted more than 10,000 antisemitic incidents in the U.S. This is the highest number of incidents ever recorded in a single year since the ADL started tracking in 1979, representing an over 200 percent increase compared to the incidents reported during the same year prior.

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