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How GenAI Is Reshaping Terrorist and Violent Extremist Glorification Online

Trigger Warning: This analysis contains references to real-world acts of violence, victims of terrorist attacks, and online violent…

The Overuse and Over Reliance on AI by Minors

An analysis of 400 examples of risky minor discourse, this article discusses why youth AI safety must expand beyond explicit harms to…

The Moderation Gap: Detecting NCII on Gaming Platforms

Alice conducted a targeted review of eight major gaming forums, analyzing 238 instances of NCII and sextortion linked to gaming…

Designed for Attachment: The Product Choices Making AI Harder to Leave

As AI products become more personal, persistent, and emotionally responsive, the most important risks may lie not only in what the model…

Are Scam Centers a National Security Threat to the United States?

That is not a hypothetical. It is happening right now, at a scale that demands the United States treat it not as a consumer fraud problem…

The New Face of Sextortion: AI, Minors, and Synthetic Threats

Rosanna Langan shares Alice’s recent findings on how how generative AI is reshaping coercion, trust, and exploitation across the sextortion…

When Safeguards Fail: Testing Grok’s AI Controls on X

Using proprietary intelligence collection methods, Alice analyzed a sample of 95 pieces of violative content — including the sexualization…

Not For Your Eyes Only: The AI Apps that Never Asked Consent

Cassidy Gibson explores the different types of AI Sexualization apps that make up the commercialized NCII ecosystem, and how they manifest…

World Cup 2026: Can AI Chatbots Become Sex Tourism Guides?

Large sporting events have become synonymous with potential sexual exploitation and abuse. We tested three chatbots to see whether they may…

Synthetic Influence, Real-World Harm: How AI Influencers Are Creating New Pathways for Image Abuse…

Alice analyzed over 500 sources to understand how stolen media, synthetic identities, and adult monetization are converging into a scalable…

Drug-Facilitated Sexual Violence: The Chinese “Date Rape” Ecosystem and NCII

Alice analyzed over 200 sources to map how trusted online platforms, closed channels, mainstream e-commerce, and non-consensual intimate…

Youth AI Safety Red Teaming: Dangerous Advice

We tested four chatbots to see how they respond to minors across three risk areas: concealment from parents, medical misinformation, and…

Intimate Images as Instruments of Control: 764, NCII, and the Evolution of Extremist Extortion

James Hardy explores the proliferation of NCII within “Com” networks and nihilist violent extremism circles. Using the 764 cell as a case…

From Image Trading to Sextortion

Alice’s analysis of 1,000 sextortion related accounts show how trading communities can function as early entry points to sexual blackmail…

Why Viral CSAM is Missed: Navigating the NCII Pipeline

Alice conducted a red team investigation using a sample of 50 viral leaked CSAM cases, simulating how users might intentionally search for…

The Financial Underground: Inside the Payment Infrastructure of Non-Consensual Imagery Sites

Cassidy Gibson shares Alice’s analysis of 300+ websites hosting NCII to examine their financial architecture.

Youth AI Safety Red Teaming: Suicide, Self-Harm, and Eating Disorder Risk

Trigger Warning: Suicide and Self Harm, Eating Disorders

Russia’s Election Interference on Display in Armenia

From personal smears to geopolitical fearmongering, the 2026 Armenian parliamentary elections revealed a familiar Kremlin-aligned model…

Unmanned Warfare and Information Ecosystems: Drone Strikes, Attribution, and the Speed of Online…

Drones have become ubiquitous on the modern battlefield, transforming the way militaries gather intelligence and conduct strikes. Beyond…

Peer-To-Peer Harms: Why Keywords Alone Fail in Self-Generated CSAM Detection

Alice’s intelligence teams have spent years mapping the linguistic, behavioral, and evasion structures of online harm across languages…

The Assassination Conspiracy Playbook: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures

Youth AI Safety Red Teaming: Harmful Stereotypes

Alice evaluated four chatbots to determine how they respond to prompts from a hypothetical 14 year-old user, investigating whether their…

Covid-19 Built the Misinformation Infrastructure, Hantavirus Shows How Well it Works

Fake news about disease outbreaks is not built from scratch, but builds on a previously tried and tested misinformation framework…

Armed Groups’ Outsized Role Online and Offline in Colombia’s 2026 Presidential Elections

Ten years after the 2016 peace deal that brought an end to Colombia’s 52-year-long conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia…

How ISIS Media Ecosystems Are Leveraging the 2026 FIFA World Cup

The most consequential developments within extremist ecosystems rarely begin with explicit operational directives. More often, they emerge…