The European Union's law enforcement agency cautioned Tuesday that artificial intelligence is turbocharging organized crime that is eroding the foundations of societies across the 27-nation bloc as it becomes intertwined with state-sponsored destabilization campaigns.
The grim warning came at the launch of the latest edition of a report on organized crime published every four years by Europol that is compiled using data from police across the EU and will help shape law enforcement policy in the bloc in coming years.
The grim warning came at the launch of the latest edition of a report on organized crime published every four years by Europol that is compiled using data from police across the EU and will help shape law enforcement policy in the bloc in coming years.
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00:00networks, marking a new era in organized crime.
00:03Serious and organized crime is not only pervasive,
00:07it is also undergoing a fundamental transformation.
00:11Its own DNA is changing. First, crime is becoming more destabilizing.
00:19It corrodes the political, economic and social structures that hold
00:23our societies together. It generates illicit money
00:28that fuels violence and extends corruption.
00:31But organized crime is no longer just about
00:35making money. We observe a growing collaboration between criminal networks
00:41and actors orchestrating hybrid threats, exploiting geopolitical
00:48tensions and undermining our institutions.
00:51Crime is accelerated by AI and emerging technologies.
00:57Artificial intelligence, blockchain and quantum computing
01:01are creating new opportunities for criminals
01:05to operate with speed, precision and anonymity.
01:09So the investments in the resources and the
01:12legal framework are very important for the future for law enforcement
01:16to be able to continue. Also the fact that nowadays we are still
01:22working with different criminal courts in the whole of the European
01:26Union where the territory is very important to define who will
01:31manage the operation and who will manage the
01:34investigation. We will need to find new solutions in
01:38policing because the cyber world is a global world.
01:41The digital environment is globally organized.
01:44So we also have to have protocols there so that we are
01:49also for the future strong enough to tackle these
01:53global crime areas.