Impact of AI on Future Police Work

The police are increasingly using AI applications to cope with the flood of data when investigating crimes. Criminals are also relying more and more on AI to prepare and commit crimes. There is currently a certain amount of enthusiasm on the part of the police regarding the benefits and opportunities of new AI technologies for the prosecution of crime. The risks and dangers, also with regard to the perpetrators, are still largely unknown. In cooperation with the German Police University, the project will examine future developments from a criminological and technical perspective. To this end, the tools already developed for police work will be comprehensively analyzed from a technical and social science perspective and the potentials and dangers of AI applications will be examined with regard to both the pursuer and the perpetrator side.

With Prof. Dr. Honekamp DHPol