How AI Creates Opportunities for Criminal Behaviour
In a world where technologies are becoming more innovative, criminals are getting smarter. An emerging technology like AI plays an increasingly significant role in our society, and criminals are using it to facilitate and maximise their criminal activities. Criminals use AI for intimation, humiliation, and harassment. But it can also be responsible for encouraging murderous acts and generating indecent images.
The use of AI for online predators
As AI becomes more accessible, the number of people using it for criminal activity has risen. According to the Internet Watch Foundation, there were more than 20,000 AI-generated images on one single dark web forum in October 2023, and more than 3,000 were related to child sexual abuse.
Online predators use AI in several different ways, such as entering text prompts to generate child abuse imagery and altering previously uploaded files to make them sexually explicit and abusive.
The volume of sexually explicit images of children generated by predators using AI threatens to overwhelm the police’s capabilities. In cases where children are not physically harmed, the use of their faces in AI-generated images presents a new challenge for protecting their online privacy and digital safety.
The use of AI in cyber-attacks
AI can automate many aspects of cyber-attacks, from scanning for vulnerabilities to launching large-scale coordinated attacks. Cybercriminals can deploy AI-powered bots to scan thousands of websites or networks simultaneously, identifying weaknesses that can be exploited. This automation reduces the time and effort needed to launch successful attacks.
Ultimately, as AI technology becomes more advanced and accessible, the number of people using it for criminal activity will rise. Advancements in AI present opportunities for criminal behaviour, which is likely to lead to unprecedented growth in certain crimes.
While law enforcement aims to stop criminals from offending, AI’s easy availability and ease of use will continue to attract people into committing crimes.
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