Intentional Harm: Prepare for an Onslaught of AI-Enabled Crime

Fiona J McEvoy
The Startup
Published in
6 min readOct 29, 2020

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“The degree to which this diversity criminal acts may be enhanced by use of AI depends significantly on how embedded they are in a computational environment: robotics is rapidly advancing, but AI is better suited to participate in a bank fraud than a pub brawl. This preference for the digital rather than the physical world is a weak defence though as contemporary society is profoundly dependent on complex computational networks.”

AI-Enabled Future Of Crime Report

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Fiona J McEvoy
The Startup

Tech ethics researcher. Founder of YouTheData.com. Tech issues for non-tech audiences. @YouTheData @FionaJMcEvoy