Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Investigations

            The article I chose deals with artificial intelligence and how it contributes to cyber crime investigations. The question at large here is how does artificial intelligence directly relate to solving crimes? This can be done through showing analysis and trends between past criminals and new criminals. Artificial intelligence software can run deep algorithms based on human patterns that the normal human brain cannot achieve. This directly relates to the principles of social science in many ways. Criminology and Psychology are the two main social sciences that my article derives information from. Criminology because Artificial intelligence is being used to find, prevent, and possibly even help punish criminals in the court system. Psychology, because artificial intelligence is figuring out human patterns that directly occur before and during the time a cybercrime happens.

 Artificial intelligence is using deep algorithms to help catch criminals. Artificial intelligence even has very impressive facial recognitions to help bring cyber criminals to justice. If it has a face to match. This directly relates to the class because we are on a cyber related course. Being able to understand the way artificial intelligence uses its data and how it directly corresponds to the social sciences is very important. Pattern recognition technology is the most used way that artificial intelligence is helping to gather data to stop cyber-crimes. Psychology and the human patterns AI are discovering go hand in hand. Humans seem to follow specific patterns before, during, and after a cyber crime takes place. This article directly relates to the class because psychology is a top social science that is connected within cyber security. The mental state of some individuals can help us understand why cyber crimes happen, and why a person would choose to commit one. This can create concern for individuals that are hacking and currently learning to hack. Whether it is ethical hacking or not does not matter because artificial intelligence is learning the patterns, which are the same in criminal and ethical hacking. Artificial intelligence cannot understand the meaning behind the hack; therefore, it can mistake a criminal hack for ethical hackers or penetrations testers. This is a small, marginalized group of people who can feel the effects of artificial intelligence helping cyber-crime related investigations. It could one day even take their jobs if it does a better job at protecting systems.

Overall, Artificial intelligence is creating a very positive outlook for society in terms of stopping criminals. AI being able to stop cyber crimes can help protect people’s bank accounts, PII, and other valuable information from being compromised. No one wants to be a victim of cyber-crime, and artificial intelligence is here to help us. Society is a little more well protected thanks to this amazing technology.

References

Faqir, R. S. (2023). Digital Criminal Investigations in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: A Comprehensive Overview. Emirates, UAE: Internatinal Journal of Cyber Criminology.

https://cybercrimejournal.com/menuscript/index.php/cybercrimejournal/article/view/189/71