ISIS harnesses artificial intelligence to lure British teens, sparking MI5 and MI6 vigilance British security officials told the Telegraph that jihadist propagandists now used AI systems to translate Arabic material, including editorials from the weekly ISIS newspaper Al-Naba.

(Jerusalem Post) An 18-year-old from south London appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court last week charged with intending to commit acts of terrorism after officers arrested him at Gatwick Airport as he tried to board a flight to Istanbul; prosecutors said he planned to cross into Syria to join Islamic State fighters. The case was sent to a further hearing at the Old Bailey later this month.

The arrest sharpened official concern that Islamic State launched a fresh recruitment drive aimed at British youth, using artificial-intelligence tools to translate and distribute extremist material quickly. “The Islamic State has for the first time resorted to artificial intelligence to recruit British jihadists,” intelligence sources warned.

MI5 and MI6 monitored what one official called a propaganda weapon amid a wider assessment that ISIS and al-Qaeda regained strength in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa.

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