This paper analyses how AI and algorithms are being used to radicalize, polarize, and spread racism and political instability. AI and algorithms are not just tools deployed by national security agencies but contributors to polarization, radicalism and political violence. Securitization processes are a missing link to understanding how AI has been designed and used and to the harmful outcomes that it has generated. Reconceptualizing AI-enabled conflict is necessary in a way that is more aware of the human, social and psychological impacts of the technology.