Yannick Veilleux-Lepage is an academic researcher on technology and terrorism. He is the author of the April 2026 CTC Sentinel article "Beyond Misuse: Artificial Intelligence, Grievance, and the Future Landscape of Political Violence", which introduces an accountability-gap framework for understanding AI-driven political violence as distinct from the misuse of AI by violent actors.
Background
Veilleux-Lepage published "Beyond Misuse" in CTC Sentinel, the publication of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. As of this writing his full institutional affiliation has not been identified beyond the CTC Sentinel byline, which is the load-bearing credential.
Framework and positions
In Beyond Misuse: Artificial Intelligence, Grievance, and the Future Landscape of Political Violence — Yannick Veilleux-Lepage (Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, April 2026), Veilleux-Lepage extends Mauro Lubrano's anti-technology-extremism framework, set out in Stop the Machines, to AI specifically. He names the accountability gap as the cross-cutting mechanism that redirects AI-mediated grievance toward visible material targets — executives, local policymakers, and infrastructure — when the AI system itself is inattributable. The article is the primary source for AI-Driven Political Violence.
Veilleux-Lepage's framework is theoretical rather than empirical. He frames its predictive accuracy as something to be tested over the next 12 to 24 months (Beyond Misuse: Artificial Intelligence, Grievance, and the Future Landscape of Political Violence — Yannick Veilleux-Lepage (Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, April 2026)).
Reception
Lila Shroff's Atlantic article (May 13, 2026) cites Veilleux-Lepage by name and quotes his framework directly (The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly — Lila Shroff (The Atlantic, May 13 2026)), and is the primary mainstream-media uptake of the work.
Relationships
- supports: AI-Driven Political Violence — primary framework
- related: Mauro Lubrano — the Stop the Machines framework Veilleux-Lepage extends
- related: Lila Shroff — Shroff's Atlantic piece is the primary mainstream-media uptake