AI Crime Policy

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What is one of the limitations to acquiring evidence for a particular type of crime mentioned in the text?

The manipulation of machine learning training data to introduce specific biases.
The use of AI to generate many versions of a particular piece of content.
The evidence is difficult to find due to secrecy around military capabilities.
The cost of acquiring the evidence is higher than the potential profit from the crime. (correct)

Which type of crime is described as highly achievable due to almost no technical barrier?

Misuse of military robots
Data poisoning
Snake oil (correct)
Market bombing

What could AI be used for in relation to fake news, as mentioned in the text?

Monitoring the location and activity of individuals.
Committing burglaries using small autonomous robots.
Harvesting information from social media or large personal datasets. (correct)
Generating fake content such as art or music.

Which type of crime involves deliberate introduction of specific biases into machine learning training data?

Data poisoning (D) Signup and view all the answers

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. (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the potential impact of online eviction as mentioned in the text?

To deny access to essential services and cause chaos. (C) Signup and view all the answers

Which type of crime involves taking advantage of existing biases in algorithms?

Bias exploitation (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is the focus of the briefing on AI-enabled future crimes?

Identifying 20 potential AI-enabled future crimes (C) Signup and view all the answers

Which technology has the potential to be exploited for criminal purposes according to the briefing?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) (C) Signup and view all the answers

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 (C) Signup and view all the answers

What are some examples of 'behind the scenes' applications of AI mentioned in the text?

Language translation and biometric identification (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is an example of an emerging AI application mentioned in the text?

Systems for crime prevention and detection (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the main concern regarding AI-enabled future crimes?

The achievability of the crime and its difficulty to defeat (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is meant by 'tailored phishing' as mentioned in the text?

'Tailored phishing' refers to personalized email scams targeting specific individuals or organizations (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the main concern associated with AI-enabled future crimes?

Difficulty of preventing or detecting the crimes (B) Signup and view all the answers

How does AI technology contribute to the potential for large scale blackmail?

By improving the success rates of phishing attacks (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is a potential criminal use of driverless vehicles controlled by AI?

Enabling single perpetrators to perform multiple attacks (B) Signup and view all the answers

How does AI technology affect the success rates of phishing attacks?

It crafts messages that appear more genuine (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the potential impact of disrupting AI-controlled systems?

Widespread power failures and traffic gridlock (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is a key factor contributing to the difficulty of defeating tailored phishing attacks?

Improved success rates of phishing attacks by crafting genuine messages (B) Signup and view all the answers

Why are AI-enabled future crimes considered highly scalable?

Because once developed, techniques can be shared, repeated, or sold (B) Signup and view all the answers

What was the purpose of the sandpit event mentioned in the text?

To identify and catalogue possible AI applications for perpetration of crime (C) Signup and view all the answers

Which funding organization established the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL?

The Dawes Trust (B) Signup and view all the answers

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 (C) Signup and view all the answers

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 (D) Signup and view all the answers

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 (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of Mr Vaseem Khan in the UCL Security & Crime Science?

Business Director (D) Signup and view all the answers

Which method involves efforts to enable computers to reproduce tasks that normally require human intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) (C) Signup and view all the answers

What does Machine Learning (ML) use as its training data?

'Training data' (B) Signup and view all the answers

How are most uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) characterized at present?

Task specific rather than capable of doing many different things (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the potential impact of disrupting AI-controlled systems?

Creating widespread power failures and traffic gridlock (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is a potential criminal use of driverless vehicles controlled by AI?

Performing multiple attacks with reduced need for driver recruitment (A) Signup and view all the answers

How does AI technology affect the success rates of phishing attacks?

Increases the success rates by making messages look more genuine (C) Signup and view all the answers

Which type of crime involves deliberate introduction of specific biases into machine learning training data?

Audio/visual impersonation (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is an example of an emerging AI application mentioned in the text?

Predicting stock markets and manipulating voters (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the main concern associated with AI-enabled future crimes?

Difficulty of preventing, detecting, or rendering the crime unprofitable (B) Signup and view all the answers

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 (C) Signup and view all the answers

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 (B) Signup and view all the answers

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 (D) Signup and view all the answers

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 (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is a potential criminal use of autonomous attack drones, as mentioned in the text?

Causing major transport disruptions and coordination of complex attacks (B) Signup and view all the answers

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 (C) Signup and view all the answers

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 (D) Signup and view all the answers

'Bias exploitation' refers to which type of crime related to AI-enabled future crimes?

Taking advantage of existing biases in algorithms through AI techniques (B) Signup and view all the answers

What was the main purpose of the sandpit event mentioned in the text?

To rank the threats identified during the review along four dimensions (B) Signup and view all the answers

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 (C) Signup and view all the answers

What does Reinforcement Learning (RL) involve?

Observing and interacting with some system to maximize a 'reward' (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is the potential impact of disrupting AI-controlled systems?

Causing AI-controlled systems to produce the wrong output (A) Signup and view all the answers

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 (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is a potential threat posed by autonomous attack drones, as mentioned in the text?

Deliberate use for perpetration of crime (B) Signup and view all the answers

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 (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is meant by 'tailored phishing' as mentioned in the text?

'Tailored phishing' involves deliberate introduction of specific biases into machine learning training data (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is an example of an emerging AI application mentioned in the text?

A new PhD research project on adversarial perturbations (B) Signup and view all the answers

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 (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is meant by 'tailored phishing' as mentioned in the text?

Phishing attacks customized for specific individuals or organizations (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is a potential criminal use of autonomous attack drones, as mentioned in the text?

Driverless vehicles as weapons (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the potential impact of disrupting AI-controlled systems?

Undermining crime prevention and detection efforts (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is a key factor contributing to the difficulty of defeating tailored phishing attacks?

Customization for specific individuals or organizations (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is an example of an emerging AI application mentioned in the text?

'Personal assistants' like Amazon Alexa and Google Home (A) Signup and view all the answers

How does AI technology affect the success rates of phishing attacks?

It increases the success rates by enabling tailored phishing attacks (D) Signup and view all the answers

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 (B) Signup and view all the answers

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 (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the potential criminal use of driverless vehicles controlled by AI?

Escaping from crime scenes without leaving a human trail (D) Signup and view all the answers

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 (C) Signup and view all the answers

How does AI technology contribute to the potential for large scale blackmail?

By automating the process of identifying potential targets for blackmail (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is an example of an emerging AI application mentioned in the text?

Biometric identification for access control (C) Signup and view all the answers

What are some examples of 'behind the scenes' applications of AI mentioned in the text?

'Personal assistants' and language translation (B) Signup and view all the answers

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What is one of the limitations to acquiring evidence for a particular type of crime mentioned in the text?

Which type of crime is described as highly achievable due to almost no technical barrier?

What could AI be used for in relation to fake news, as mentioned in the text?

Which type of crime involves deliberate introduction of specific biases into machine learning training data?

What is a potential threat posed by autonomous attack drones, as mentioned in the text?

What is the potential impact of online eviction as mentioned in the text?

Which type of crime involves taking advantage of existing biases in algorithms?

What is the focus of the briefing on AI-enabled future crimes?

Which technology has the potential to be exploited for criminal purposes according to the briefing?

What are the six most concerning future crimes identified in the study?

What are some examples of 'behind the scenes' applications of AI mentioned in the text?

What is an example of an emerging AI application mentioned in the text?

What is the main concern regarding AI-enabled future crimes?

What is meant by 'tailored phishing' as mentioned in the text?

What is the main concern associated with AI-enabled future crimes?

How does AI technology contribute to the potential for large scale blackmail?

What is a potential criminal use of driverless vehicles controlled by AI?

How does AI technology affect the success rates of phishing attacks?

What is the potential impact of disrupting AI-controlled systems?

What is a key factor contributing to the difficulty of defeating tailored phishing attacks?

Why are AI-enabled future crimes considered highly scalable?

What was the purpose of the sandpit event mentioned in the text?

Which funding organization established the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL?

What is the main focus of the research conducted by the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL?

What is the difference between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)?

What does Reinforcement Learning (RL) involve?

What is the role of Mr Vaseem Khan in the UCL Security & Crime Science?

Which method involves efforts to enable computers to reproduce tasks that normally require human intelligence?

What does Machine Learning (ML) use as its training data?

How are most uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) characterized at present?

What is the potential impact of disrupting AI-controlled systems?

What is a potential criminal use of driverless vehicles controlled by AI?

How does AI technology affect the success rates of phishing attacks?

Which type of crime involves deliberate introduction of specific biases into machine learning training data?

What is an example of an emerging AI application mentioned in the text?

What is the main concern associated with AI-enabled future crimes?

What is the focus of the briefing on AI-enabled future crimes?

What is a potential threat posed by AI-authored fake news, as mentioned in the text?

What is a potential concern associated with the misuse of military robots, according to the text?

What is a characteristic of online eviction as a potential future crime, based on the text?

What is a potential criminal use of autonomous attack drones, as mentioned in the text?

What is an example of a low concern crime related to AI-enabled future crimes, as mentioned in the text?

What is a key feature of learning-based cyber-attacks, as described in the text?

'Bias exploitation' refers to which type of crime related to AI-enabled future crimes?

What was the main purpose of the sandpit event mentioned in the text?

What is the focus of the briefing on AI-enabled future crimes?

What does Reinforcement Learning (RL) involve?

What is the potential impact of disrupting AI-controlled systems?

What are the limitations to acquiring evidence for a particular type of crime mentioned in the text?

What is a potential threat posed by autonomous attack drones, as mentioned in the text?

What is a key factor contributing to the difficulty of defeating tailored phishing attacks?

What is meant by 'tailored phishing' as mentioned in the text?

What is an example of an emerging AI application mentioned in the text?

What are the six most concerning future crimes identified in the study?

What is meant by 'tailored phishing' as mentioned in the text?

What is a potential criminal use of autonomous attack drones, as mentioned in the text?

What is the potential impact of disrupting AI-controlled systems?

What is a key factor contributing to the difficulty of defeating tailored phishing attacks?

What is an example of an emerging AI application mentioned in the text?

How does AI technology affect the success rates of phishing attacks?

What are the six most concerning future crimes identified in the study?

What is meant by 'tailored phishing' as mentioned in the text?

What is the potential criminal use of driverless vehicles controlled by AI?

What is the main concern associated with AI-enabled future crimes?

How does AI technology contribute to the potential for large scale blackmail?

What is an example of an emerging AI application mentioned in the text?

What are some examples of 'behind the scenes' applications of AI mentioned in the text?

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