AI & Global Governance: Turning the Tide on Crime with Predictive Policing - United Nations University Centre for Policy Research

Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm, becoming a marketing buzzword and hotly commented subject in the press. Over the last few years there have been several important milestones in AI, in particular in terms of image, pattern and speech recognition, language comprehension and autonomous vehicles. Advancements such as these have prompted the healthcare, automotive, financial, communications and many more industries to adopt AI in pursuit of its transformative potential. How can AI benefit law enforcement and why might this be dangerous? Law enforcement is an information-based activity.