Paper reviews years of AI misuse: NCII, cybercrime, small-scale terrorism

StephenLCasper · x · 2026-10-20

Thread follow-up: the paper surveys how harmful capabilities proliferated and were misused in recent years — non-consensual AI nudification, AI-assisted cybercrime, and AI-uplifted small-scale terrorism events.

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