Methodology
How entries are created
What gets logged
All sources are retrieved from open source data for the purpose of analyzing and researching how artificial intelligence plays a role in committing, attempting, or enabling a crime. Unio Analytic studies the correlation between similar incidents and monitor the trends in the criminal use of AI. The record is built from the sources, and the sources are tiered to show how close they are to the events it describes.
Source tiers
Every source in each entry carries a tier. Each tier describes where the information originated:
| P Primary Court filings, indictments, judgments, agency releases, regulator notices, official statistics. | |
| S Secondary News organisations reporting on a primary record or their own reporting. | |
| T Tertiary Vendor blogs, trade press, aggregators. Often the only available source. |
Enforcement status
To assess and study the correlation between incidents, it is important to track the enforcement status of each case. Each status is defined by what enforcement action has been publicly recorded. Status is updated when a case moves, and the entry shows when it was last revisited.
- Reported only — no enforcement action publicly recorded.
- Investigation opened — an agency has confirmed it is investigating.
- Charges laid — charges or an indictment filed.
- Sanctions or seizure — designations, asset seizure, infrastructure takedown.
- Platform action — account, model or service-level enforcement by a provider.
- Civil litigation — private or state civil proceedings underway.
- Convicted — conviction entered, whether or not sentencing is complete.
- No human offender — no person directed the conduct, so no prosecution is possible.
Notes on each entry
Every entry contains a note field to provide further insight of the case. Mechanism explains what made the conduct possible. Claim check tests an assertion of the fact. Open question discusses unresolved issues.
Naming
No individual is named in the entries unless a court document, indictment or official agency releases it first. This record does not perform attribution and does not identify anyone not already publicly identified. Where an entry contests the characterisation attached to a case, names are withheld even when police have released them, because attaching a person to a claim this record is disputing would compound the error.
What is excluded
- Information from non-public sources.
- Operational detail, methods or instructions that would educate the public in committing an offence.
- Incident-level narrative in the exploitation category which is covered only at the policy, enforcement and statistical level.
Corrections
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