ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND CYBERCRIMES

AUTHOR – RAKESH MISHRA, PHD (LAW) – SCHOLAR ATINVERTIS UNIVERSITY, BAREILLY (U.P)

BEST CITATION – RAKESH MISHRA, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND CYBERCRIMES, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 4 (2) OF 2024, PG. 145-163, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344.

ABSTRACT

AI is “Artificial Intelligence” that is Intelligence which is artificial in nature; where Intelligence is the ability to understand, learn, think and in some way or the other take decisions.  On the other hand, Cybercrimes are crimes that include computer and/or computer networks.  With the exponential rise in the technological development the criminals are no more traditional in the manner they commit crimes. Gone are the days when people used paper files / folders to save their valuable documents and locked them in the almirah or bank lockers. Neither, people now prefer to maintain some cash in hand to meet some unexpected exigencies. With the advent of computers, digital files/folders are better preferred to be saved in digital lockers and people feel quite save with it. Even almost all banking transactions are preferred to be done online because of the lucrative ease of use which even saves time, physical hassle and also symbolises a high status.

However, in reality now we are more vulnerable to threat of digital theft and robbery because of the Artificial Intelligence and its bye-products like virus, spyware, spam, Impersonation attacks, deepfake, rapid malware generation, automated spear phishing, enhanced Botnets etc, which are increasing exponentially each day are posing great threat to the social, financial, administrative and many more aspects of governments throughout the world. This paper intends to highlight the future of cybercrime, which is based upon the emerging technologies and Artificial Intelligence. This paper also intends to study the various means the Governments around the world are opting to tackle with the problems of Cybercrime with special reference to the Government of India while critically examining the existing laws and their effectiveness and trying to find out the legal solutions to tackle with the problem of “Bad AI” using means of “Good AI” in compliance with the existing laws in India without infringement of the Fundamental Rights bestowed upon the citizens by the Constitution of India.