How could emerging technologies, such as AI, help us prevent or protect from future economic crimes?

Background

Alongside the more specific categories for further research, there are some cross-cutting themes where the research questions and gaps are relevant across economic crime as a whole.

This includes how best to understand and respond to the threat as technology develops quickly. For example, how might this technology development influence the response required. There are also gaps in the best research methods to understand economic crime as a whole; for example, around best identification and utilisation of suitable data sources.

Finally, horizon scanning is crucial to maintaining sight of how the threat may evolve and how best to prepare for mitigating that in the future.

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Economic Crime Areas of Research Interest ARI report July 2025 1

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