Description: Spanish authorities alleged that a suspect arrested in Cornellà, near Barcelona, used AI-supported editing applications to produce jihadist multimedia propaganda. He allegedly distributed material through social media and encrypted messaging to radicalize others and promote terrorist violence. A court ordered pretrial detention. The reports do not identify the applications or establish that his activity led to an attack.
Editor Notes: June 2024: Five mosques shortlisted as targets; March 2025: Detention order issued (03/01/2025 approximates the reported month; the exact day is unknown); 04/02/2025: Case publicly announced; 07/29/2025: AI chatbot ammunition queries disclosed in Singapore’s annual terrorism threat assessment. Incident ID created 10/09/2026.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Synthetic media technology developers and AI-assisted multimedia editing tool developers developed an AI system deployed by Terrorism suspects , Synthetic media creators and Extremists, which harmed Social media users and People susceptible to radicalism.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Synthetic media technology and AI-assisted multimedia editing tools
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1737
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2025-03-01
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
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Resumen
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Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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