Description: Singapore authorities reported that a 17-year-old supporter of the Islamic State terrorist group used an AI chatbot to generate an allegiance pledge and a declaration urging armed violence against non-Muslims. He allegedly planned to stab non-Muslim men near Tampines West Community Centre in Singapore and was arrested before the attack. The chatbot is unidentified, and the sources do not establish that it supplied operational attack advice.
Editor Notes: May 2024: Allegiance pledge recited; June 2024: Reconnaissance conducted; August 2024: Arrested (08/01/2024 approximates the reported month; the exact day is unknown); September 2024: Detention order issued; 10/18/2024: Case publicly announced; 07/29/2025: AI chatbot use disclosed in Singapore's annual terrorism threat assessment. Incident ID created 10/09/2026.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Large language model developers and Chatbot developers developed an AI system deployed by Terrorism suspects , Men and boys , Malicious actors , ISIS supporters , Extremists , Chatbot users , Boys , Adolescents and Adolescent boys, which harmed Non-Muslim men , General public of Singapore and General public.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Large language models and Chatbots
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1738
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2024-08-01
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
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SINGAPORE: A 17-year-old self-radicalised Singaporean was arrested under the Internal Security Act (ISA) mere weeks before his plan to carry out a terror attack in the Housing Board heartlands.
The student, described in a Friday (Oct 18) pr…
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SINGAPORE: A growing diversity of extremist ideologies can be observed in Singapore, against a backdrop of the terror threat remaining at a high level, the Internal Security Department (ISD) said on Tuesday (Jul 29).
This can be attributed …
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Internal Security Department (Singapore) post-incident response
The Singapore Terrorism Threat Assessment Report 2025 is available for download.
1. The Singapore Terrorism Threat Assessment Report 2025 [PDF, 14.9 MB] ↗(opens in new tab) is available for download.
2. The terrorism threat to Singapore rem…
Variants
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