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An analysis of the Schongau attacker’s manifesto and forum posts by Christopher David, Nils Riekers and Marten Risius highlights four themes: societal decay, misanthropy, self-hatred and suicidal ideation, and the veneration and gamification of violence:
📢🌐 Earlier this year, GNET hosted our Sixth Annual Conference with support from @GIFCT_official🗣️ With three panels, a keynote and a discussion, the conference covered trends, extremist subcultures and potential policy routes. Read the summary here:
Today, Uri Klempner draws on findings from Alice's routine adversarial red-team testing, where frontier AI models were probed to determine whether they could provide operational guidance for CBRNE threats.
An analysis of the San Diego Attackers' Manifesto by Muskan Sangwan highlights four themes: the evolving role of manifestos, symbolic identities versus organisational membership, the influence of fandom and internet culture, and emerging technologies.