AI and the New Blueprint of Terrorism (warontherocks.com)

• AI lowers barriers for low-intensity conflict and targeted violence.
• State power faces new challenges in maintaining internal order against autonomous threats.
• Strategic focus must expand beyond state-on-state threats to include radicalized small-group capabilities.

"The convergence of AI, robotics, and advanced sensors is decentralizing power, allowing smaller non-state actors to project targeted violence effectively. National security discourse often ignores this evolution in favor of existential superintelligence concerns, despite the immediate threat posed by micro-scale violence and disruption of state order."