How AI is helping detect fraud and fight criminals

AI is about to go mainstream. It will show up in the connected home, in your car, and everywhere else. While not as glamorous as sentient beings that turn on us in futuristic theme parks, the use of AI in fraud detection holds major promise. Keeping fraud at bay is an ever-evolving battle where both sides, good and bad, are adapting as quickly as possible to determine how to best use AI to their advantage. There are currently three major ways that AI that is used to fight fraud, corresponding to how AI developed as a field.