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What is one of the limitations to acquiring evidence for a particular type of crime mentioned in the text?
The cost of acquiring the evidence is higher than the potential profit from the crime.
Which type of crime is described as highly achievable due to almost no technical barrier?
Snake oil
What could AI be used for in relation to fake news, as mentioned in the text?
Harvesting information from social media or large personal datasets.
Which type of crime involves deliberate introduction of specific biases into machine learning training data?
Data poisoning
What is a potential threat posed by autonomous attack drones, as mentioned in the text?
To cause harm, but in some contexts could be easily defeated.
What is the potential impact of online eviction as mentioned in the text?
To deny access to essential services and cause chaos.
Which type of crime involves taking advantage of existing biases in algorithms?
Bias exploitation
What is the focus of the briefing on AI-enabled future crimes?
Identifying 20 potential AI-enabled future crimes
Which technology has the potential to be exploited for criminal purposes according to the briefing?
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
What are the six most concerning future crimes identified in the study?
Audio and video impersonation, driverless vehicles as weapons, tailored phishing, disrupting AI-controlled systems, large-scale blackmail, AI-authored fake news
What are some examples of 'behind the scenes' applications of AI mentioned in the text?
Language translation and biometric identification
What is an example of an emerging AI application mentioned in the text?
Systems for crime prevention and detection
What is the main concern regarding AI-enabled future crimes?
The achievability of the crime and its difficulty to defeat
What is meant by 'tailored phishing' as mentioned in the text?
'Tailored phishing' refers to personalized email scams targeting specific individuals or organizations
What is the main concern associated with AI-enabled future crimes?
Difficulty of preventing or detecting the crimes
How does AI technology contribute to the potential for large scale blackmail?
By improving the success rates of phishing attacks
What is a potential criminal use of driverless vehicles controlled by AI?
Enabling single perpetrators to perform multiple attacks
How does AI technology affect the success rates of phishing attacks?
It crafts messages that appear more genuine
What is the potential impact of disrupting AI-controlled systems?
Widespread power failures and traffic gridlock
What is a key factor contributing to the difficulty of defeating tailored phishing attacks?
Improved success rates of phishing attacks by crafting genuine messages
Why are AI-enabled future crimes considered highly scalable?
Because once developed, techniques can be shared, repeated, or sold
What was the purpose of the sandpit event mentioned in the text?
To identify and catalogue possible AI applications for perpetration of crime
Which funding organization established the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL?
The Dawes Trust
What is the main focus of the research conducted by the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL?
Identifying how technological, social, or environmental change might create new opportunities for crime
What is the difference between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)?
AI is about enabling computers to reproduce human intelligence while ML is about methods based on discovering patterns in data
What does Reinforcement Learning (RL) involve?
Observing and interacting with a system to repeatedly try out different actions with the goal of maximizing a reward
What is the role of Mr Vaseem Khan in the UCL Security & Crime Science?
Business Director
Which method involves efforts to enable computers to reproduce tasks that normally require human intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
What does Machine Learning (ML) use as its training data?
'Training data'
How are most uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) characterized at present?
Task specific rather than capable of doing many different things
What is the potential impact of disrupting AI-controlled systems?
Creating widespread power failures and traffic gridlock
What is a potential criminal use of driverless vehicles controlled by AI?
Performing multiple attacks with reduced need for driver recruitment
How does AI technology affect the success rates of phishing attacks?
Increases the success rates by making messages look more genuine
Which type of crime involves deliberate introduction of specific biases into machine learning training data?
Audio/visual impersonation
What is an example of an emerging AI application mentioned in the text?
Predicting stock markets and manipulating voters
What is the main concern associated with AI-enabled future crimes?
Difficulty of preventing, detecting, or rendering the crime unprofitable
What is the focus of the briefing on AI-enabled future crimes?
Identifying possible ways in which AI technology could be exploited for criminal purposes
What is a potential threat posed by AI-authored fake news, as mentioned in the text?
Potential market manipulation through the dissemination of fake news
What is a potential concern associated with the misuse of military robots, according to the text?
Increased threat posed by autonomous robots to battlefield and defensive deployment
What is a characteristic of online eviction as a potential future crime, based on the text?
It involves denial of access to essential online services as a means of attack
What is a potential criminal use of autonomous attack drones, as mentioned in the text?
Causing major transport disruptions and coordination of complex attacks
What is an example of a low concern crime related to AI-enabled future crimes, as mentioned in the text?
Forgery: generation of fake content such as art or music
What is a key feature of learning-based cyber-attacks, as described in the text?
They involve specific and massive attacks using reinforcement learning to probe weaknesses of many systems in parallel
'Bias exploitation' refers to which type of crime related to AI-enabled future crimes?
Taking advantage of existing biases in algorithms through AI techniques
What was the main purpose of the sandpit event mentioned in the text?
To rank the threats identified during the review along four dimensions
What is the focus of the briefing on AI-enabled future crimes?
To identify how technological, social or environmental change might create new opportunities for crime
What does Reinforcement Learning (RL) involve?
Observing and interacting with some system to maximize a 'reward'
What is the potential impact of disrupting AI-controlled systems?
Causing AI-controlled systems to produce the wrong output
What are the limitations to acquiring evidence for a particular type of crime mentioned in the text?
Difficulty in understanding how machine learning algorithms work
What is a potential threat posed by autonomous attack drones, as mentioned in the text?
Deliberate use for perpetration of crime
What is a key factor contributing to the difficulty of defeating tailored phishing attacks?
'Learning' how to perform tasks rather than being told how to do them
What is meant by 'tailored phishing' as mentioned in the text?
'Tailored phishing' involves deliberate introduction of specific biases into machine learning training data
What is an example of an emerging AI application mentioned in the text?
A new PhD research project on adversarial perturbations
What are the six most concerning future crimes identified in the study?
Audio and video impersonation, driverless vehicles as weapons, tailored phishing, disrupting AI-controlled systems, large-scale blackmail, military robots exploitation
What is meant by 'tailored phishing' as mentioned in the text?
Phishing attacks customized for specific individuals or organizations
What is a potential criminal use of autonomous attack drones, as mentioned in the text?
Driverless vehicles as weapons
What is the potential impact of disrupting AI-controlled systems?
Undermining crime prevention and detection efforts
What is a key factor contributing to the difficulty of defeating tailored phishing attacks?
Customization for specific individuals or organizations
What is an example of an emerging AI application mentioned in the text?
'Personal assistants' like Amazon Alexa and Google Home
How does AI technology affect the success rates of phishing attacks?
It increases the success rates by enabling tailored phishing attacks
What are the six most concerning future crimes identified in the study?
Audio and video impersonation, driverless vehicles as weapons, tailored phishing, disrupting AI-controlled systems
What is meant by 'tailored phishing' as mentioned in the text?
Phishing attempts made through tailored emails or messages to a specific individual or organization
What is the potential criminal use of driverless vehicles controlled by AI?
Escaping from crime scenes without leaving a human trail
What is the main concern associated with AI-enabled future crimes?
The difficulty in detecting and preventing these crimes due to AI's advanced capabilities
How does AI technology contribute to the potential for large scale blackmail?
By automating the process of identifying potential targets for blackmail
What is an example of an emerging AI application mentioned in the text?
Biometric identification for access control
What are some examples of 'behind the scenes' applications of AI mentioned in the text?
'Personal assistants' and language translation
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