Crimes of Influence: Generative Artificial Intelligence-led Crime as a Service
‘Crimes of Influence’ – crimes that seek to influence people towards harmful outcomes – will be one of the defining features of generative artificial intelligence (AI)-led cybercrime. With an ability to persuade and influence at potentially unavoidable economies of scale, crimes of influence leverage the heuristics and biases that form part of everyday human cognition in ways that mislead, deceive, impair, disrupt, degrade and/or deny user-normative decision-making.