Security News > 2020 > August > Ways AI could be used to facilitate crime over the next 15 years

Fake audio or video content has been ranked by experts as the most worrying use of artificial intelligence in terms of its potential applications for crime or terrorism, according to a new UCL report.

The study identified 20 ways AI could be used to facilitate crime over the next 15 years.

Crimes of low concern included burglar bots - small robots used to gain entry into properties through access points such as letterboxes or cat flaps - which were judged to be easy to defeat, for instance through letterbox cages, and AI-assisted stalking, which, although extremely damaging to individuals, could not operate at scale.

"Unlike many traditional crimes, crimes in the digital realm can be easily shared, repeated, and even sold, allowing criminal techniques to be marketed and for crime to be provided as a service. This means criminals may be able to outsource the more challenging aspects of their AI-based crime."

Professor Shane Johnson, Director of the Dawes Centre for Future Crimes at UCL, which funded the study, said: "We live in an ever changing world which creates new opportunities - good and bad. As such, it is imperative that we anticipate future crime threats so that policy makers and other stakeholders with the competency to act can do so before new 'crime harvests' occur. This report is the first in a series that will identify the future crime threats associated with new and emerging technologies and what we might do about them."

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