This book analyses the implications of the technical, legal, ethical and privacy challenges as well as challenges for human rights and civil liberties regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and National Security. It also offers solutions that can be adopted to mitigate or eradicate these challenges wherever possible.
As a general-purpose, dual-use technology, AI can be deployed for both good and evil. The use of AI is increasingly becoming of paramount importance to the government's mission to keep their nations safe. However, the design, development and use of AI for national security poses a wide range of legal, ethical, moral and privacy challenges. This book explores national security uses for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Western Democracies and its malicious use. This book also investigates the legal, political, ethical, moral, privacy and human rights implications of the national security uses of AI in the aforementioned democracies. It illustrates how AI for national security purposes could threaten most individual fundamental rights, and how the use of AI in digital policing could undermine user human rights and privacy.
In relation to its examination of the adversarial uses of AI, this book discusses how certain countries utilise AI to launch disinformation attacks by automating the creation of false or misleading information to subvert public discourse. With regards to the potential of AI for national security purposes, this book investigates how AI could be utilized in content moderation to counter violent extremism on social media platforms. It also discusses the current practices in using AI in managing Big Data Analytics demands.
This book provides a reference point for researchers and advanced-level students studying or working in the fields of Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Social Sciences, Network Security as well as Law and Criminology. Professionals working within these related fields and law enforcement employees will also find this book valuable as a reference.
About the Author: ​Dr. Reza Montasari is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Threats at the Department of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy in the School of Social Sciences at Swansea University, Wales, United Kingdom (UK). Dr. Montasari is also a member of the Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC) at Swansea University, which focuses on addressing a wide range of online threats, from terrorism, extremism and cybercrime to child sexual exploitation and grooming online. Reza serves as a Member of Strategic Independent Advisory Group at South Wales Police (Cardiff, Wales, UK), and a Programme Chair, Programme Steering Member, and Committee Member of the Annual International Conference on Global Security, Safety & Sustainability. Reza holds a BSc (Hons) in Multimedia Computing and an MSc in Computer Forensics both from the University of South Wales and a PhD in Digital Forensics from the University of Derby. He is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), a Chartered Engineer (CEng), and a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Reza's main research interests lie in the areas of Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare, and Artificial Intelligence but also include Cyber Law and Cyber Criminology. Reza is a prolific publisher of academic research and is frequently invited to present or be a panelist at various international security-related conferences. Reza is an experienced professor, supervisor and examiner of both undergraduate and postgraduate candidates, as well as having extensive experience in reviewing and examining programmes of study. Reza is also very experienced at designing, developing and validating both new programmes of studies and new modules. He is or has been an External Examiner to the University of South Wales (Newport, UK) and the University of Northampton (Northampton, UK). He has also acted as the External Member of Validation Panel for Postgraduate Computer Forensics and Security at Leeds Beckett University (Leeds, UK), and an External Assessor for Validation and Review for MSc Digital Forensics / MSc Information Security Management at Middlesex University (London, UK).