Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now touching every aspect of life, and like most emerging technologies, holds the potential for both great good and adverse consequences that may result in harm. AI can enhance behavioral risks, including AI addiction and dependence, cognitive atrophy, suicide risk, and targeted violence.

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Several targeted violence cases have demonstrated how AI can influence, even assist a threat actor, in planning and executing an attack. The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into daily life has fundamentally altered the threat landscape, and can accelerate progression towards violence, as well as fuel grievances and violent ideations in ways that traditional behavioral threat assessment models are not fully equipped to capture. As individuals increasingly form deep, and possibly pathological relationships with generative AI or mobilize around emerging anti-AI ideologies, threat assessment professionals face a critical visibility gap. Traditional screening tools often overlook the nuanced ways AI can move a threat actor onto and along the pathway to violence,  leaving security teams vulnerable to blind spots in workplace violence and targeted attack prevention.

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The AI-Influence & Violence Risk Screening Questionnaire (AI-VR-SQ Version 1.5) directly bridges this operational gap by providing an objective, structured framework to evaluate these emerging vectors of risk. The AI-Influence & Violence Risk Screening Questionnaire is an auxiliary triage and investigative tool designed to help threat assessment and security professionals systematically and consistently evaluate how an individual’s interaction with generative artificial intelligence (e.g., advanced chatbots, virtual companions, custom personas, text/content generators) may disrupt, amplify, or accelerate progression along the pathway to targeted violence and/or self-harm.

 

Designed specifically for security, threat management, and human resources professionals, this specialized tool helps systematically identify whether an individual's worldview is being actively distorted by automated platforms, or if they are escalating along a pathway to violence driven by anti-tech grievances. By standardizing the evaluation of AI-related threat indicators, the questionnaire empowers your threat assessors to move from uncertainty to actionable, proactive intervention, ensuring behavioral threat management protocols remain as sophisticated as the threats they are built to mitigate.