Recording: Terrorist Financing in the Age of Large Language Models
The webinar explores how terrorists could exploit LLMs for fundraising, examining risks, current AI misuse, platform safeguards, and strategies to detect and disrupt illicit activities.
Overview
This online webinar features a new CRAAFT (Collaborative Responses to the Role of New Technologies in Terrorist Financing) research briefing, ‘Terrorist Financing via Large Language Models (LLMs)’, by Jason Blazakis, Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Executive Director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, in discussion with Tom Keatinge, Director at CFS at RUSI.
The session explores potential and documented use cases, including audience cultivation, donor conversion, funds transfer, and laundering, highlighting insertion points such as automated appeals, micro-targeting, social-engineering scripts and workflow automation. It also examines how criminal networks and state actors exploit AI/LLMs, assess platform safeguards, and discuss strategies to detect and disrupt LLM-enabled terrorist financing.
