Impact of artificial intelligence on cybercrime

2023-02-21

Artificial intelligence can be used by cybercriminals to automate their attacks and adapt their scenarios to a predetermined profile of victims, Prof. Agnieszka Gryszczynska said. Her lecture on the impact of artificial intelligence on cybercrime is available on the Justice Institute’s Youtube channel.

In November, the results of research within the framework of international cooperation between the Institute of Justice (IWS) and the Ferenc Mádel Institute of Comparative Law in Budapest were presented. This was a summary of the results of the work of four Polish-Hungarian research teams. The team of scientists dealt with artificial intelligence, among other things. The Warsaw conference “Polish-Hungarian Research Platform” presented the results of the four international teams’ research. The Justice Institute published (video) of the paper by Prof. Agnieszka Gryszczynska.

The Polish-Hungarian research platform on artificial intelligence (AI) was led by Agnieszka Gryszczynska, PhD, a computer science engineer and professor at UKSW. According to her, the research on AI clearly shows the regulatory and legislative problems in the age of modern technology and at the same time reveals the lack of regulation at the EU level, which is a growing problem for the development of the latest technological solutions. – Europe must push for legal regulation and programs to support artificial intelligence, otherwise it will lose the global race in the application of the latest technologies. In this race, the United States and Asian countries led by China are very advanced,” said Prof. Agnieszka Gryszczynska.

During the Polish-Hungarian conference, a number of problems with the use of artificial intelligence were discussed and documents of legal solutions were presented, which are already well advanced. – Artificial intelligence can be used by cybercriminals who automate their attacks and adapt their scenarios to the established profile of victims, Prof. Gryszczynska stressed.

On the other hand, AI can be used to analyze large sets of personal and non-personal data, for profiling, and to detect cyber attacks, which can benefit cyber security. AI, by detecting an attack faster, as well as collecting and analyzing data, can help bring cybercriminals to justice.It can also make it easier to de-anonymize perpetrators, establish their identities, and thus positively impact the fight against cybercrime, Prof. Agnieszka Gryszczynska points out.

AI can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of pre-trial investigations. Indeed, artificial intelligence should be used to detect and merge proceedings for the same crime, and to analyze digitized files to determine links and dependencies between ongoing proceedings.

The research platforms conducted by the Institute for Justice 2022 have received high praise from the scientific community especially in Central European countries. Therefore, the initiative will be continued and developed in 2023. This year’s edition of projects coordinated by the IWS is likely to begin in April and last until October. It has been tentatively agreed that the “Comparative Research Project 2023” (Comparative Research Project 2023) will involve research teams from 7 European countries.