Future Crime Webinar: AI and Criminal Law Enforcement

You need not ask “ChatGPT” to find out that artificial intelligence is no longer something of the future. AI is our present. Intelligent “learning” machines are becoming more and more reliable, and they can be fruitfully employed in a number of societal areas, including criminal justice enforcement. We are progressively moving from the times where machines would simply allow humans to store and search in large quantities of data (“big data”), to the times where machines use the big data themselves, discover and learn new patterns, and even apply their standards and criteria to traditional activities and decision-making contexts. This is particularly the case of investigative activities, where AI applications open new frontiers in policing, both at a preventative and reactive e level.

As it often happens, the advent of new opportunities brings about new – and greater – risks. AI applications are not necessarily as rationale and neutral as they might appear, and they might endanger some classic fundamental rights, from the right to equal treatment to liberty rights, and even fair trail and presumption of innocence.

FACE Scientific Committee:

Lorena Bachmaier Winter (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Pascal Beauvais (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Michele Caianiello (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna)

Carsten Momsen (Freie Universität Berlin)

Michele Panzavolta (KU Leuven)