AI-Assisted Identity Construction

Description

AI helps the person build an identity as avenger, martyr, rescuer, soldier, prophet, victim, or revolutionary.

Rationale

Identity construction as avenger, martyr, or revolutionary provides the psychological infrastructure that makes violence possible and even desirable. AI can assist in building and refining this identity by providing ideological framing, historical precedent, and narrative coherence. A fully elaborated violent identity significantly increases the risk of mobilization.

Evidence Base

• Inside a Mass Shooter’s Harrowing History With ChatGPT

  Mark Follman, 2024. Inside a Mass Shooter’s Harrowing History With ChatGPT. Mother Jones.

  News / journalism