The Use Of AI In White Collar Crime: Who’s Liable When Machines Misbehave?
- IJLLR Journal
- Aug 10
- 1 min read
Ridhikamini Basu Mallick, Jindal Global Law School (JGLS)
ABSTRACT
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into corporate environment has not only transformed how business operate but has also redefined an entire web of white-collar crimes. While AI promises predictive high-tech foreign investment, insights, efficiency and support, it also brings in algorithmic manipulation, breach of privacy, infringement of rights and regulatory misconduct.
The central aim of this paper is to deliberate how AI tools are being leveraged, intentionally or inadvertently, in facilitating white collar offences. Can a machine “intent” to commit a crime by itself? Who holds culpability when an algorithm makes a harmful and illegal decision? Where do we draw the line between the system error and criminal liability?
This paper shall try to assess how traditional frameworks of criminal law are challenged by AI’s role and will brief examine whether the existing statutes are well equipped to respond to AI-enabled offences. This paper seeks to give a brief idea into the criminal implications of artificial intelligence in corporate world and shall hope to call upon a more nuanced and effective legal framework to tackle this new-age technology.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, White Collar Crimes, Digital Age, Surveillance, Status quo
