Our friends over at Cognyte recently released a report about ChatGPT, crime and the impact on law enforcement authorities: “ChatGPT and Crime – What Law Enforcement Needs to Know about Large Language Models.” Hundreds of millions of users around the world are using AI bots, such as ChatGPT, which are powered by Large Language Model (LLMs). This rapidly evolving technology has the potential to allow criminals and bad actors to easily scale up cyber-crime, financial crime, human trafficking, disinformation and other illicit activities.
Algorithm Predicts Crime a Week in Advance, but Reveals Bias in Police Response
July 6, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence have sparked interest from governments that would like to use these tools for predictive policing to deter crime. Early efforts at crime prediction have been controversial, however, because they do not account for systemic biases in police enforcement and its complex relationship with crime and society. Scientists have developed a new algorithm that forecasts crime by learning patterns in time and geographic locations from public data on violent and property crimes. The model can predict future crimes one week in advance with about 90% accuracy.
The Secret to Solving the World’s Crimes Lies in Data
May 27, 2022 by Leave a Comment
In this contributed article, Chris Cardwell, Product Go-To-Market Lead for Tresata, discusses how data can help tackle the global problem that is financial crime, but there are challenges within the data itself that complicate investigations further.
