ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CRIME IN THE CONTEXT OF RAT

Year 2025, Volume: 9 Issue: 3, 272 - 292, 17.10.2025

Ayşe Mahinur Tezcan

Abstract

The development of artificial intelligence, a type of intelligence designed by humans and used by machines, is leading to changes in many areas. These changes have positive features but also bring risks. The relationship between artificial intelligence and crime is included in this risky area. This issue can be addressed in two dimensions. While the first dimension covers crimes committed through artificial intelligence and crimes committed by artificial intelligence, the second dimension includes the facilitating effect of artificial intelligence in crime pursuit. Artificial intelligence facilitates crimes by changing the methods of traditional crimes or changing the nature of crime by going beyond traditional crimes. Instead of crimes where the criminal and the victim use the same time and place, crimes in which temporal and spatial coexistence is not a mandatory condition emerge. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between artificial intelligence and crime, specifically the issue of artificial intelligence's criminal liability, and to explore how routine activity theory might address these crimes. To this end, a literature review method was used in the study. Given the limited studies on the explanatory power of routine activity theory in the literature on artificial intelligence and crime, as well as the rapid pace of digitalization and the early stage of research on the subject, this study aims to contribute to the literature.

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence , Crime , Crime Prevention and Prediction , Deepfake , Routine Activity Theory

RUTİN AKTİVİTE TEORİSİ (RAT) BAĞLAMINDA YAPAY ZEKÂ VE SUÇ

Abstract

İnsanların tasarladığı, makinaların kullandığı bir zekâ türü olan yapay zekânın gelişimi pek çok alanda değişimlere yol açmaktadır. Bu değişimler olumlu özellikler barındırdığı gibi riskleri de beraberinde getirmektedir. Yapay zekâ ve suç ilişkisi bu riskli alan içindedir. Bu mesele iki boyutlu olarak ele alınabilir. Birinci boyutta yapay zekâ aracılığıyla işlenen ve yapay zekânın işlediği suçlar yer alırken ikinci boyutta suç takibinde yapay zekânın kolaylaştırıcı etkisi bulunmaktadır. Yapay zekâ, geleneksel suçların yöntemlerini değiştirerek ya da tamamen geleneksel suçların dışına çıkılarak suç işlemeyi kolaylaştırmakta ve suçun doğasını değiştirmektedir. Suçlunun ve mağdurun aynı zaman ve mekânı kullandığı suçlardan ziyade zamansal ve mekânsal birlikteliğin zorunlu koşul olmadığı suçlar ortaya çıkmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı yapay zekâ ve suç ilişkisiyle yapay zekânın cezai sorumluluğu meselesini irdelemek ve rutin aktivite teorisinin bu suçları ne şekilde ele alabileceğini ele almaktır. Bu amaçla, çalışmada literatür taraması yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Yapay zekâ ve suç üzerine yapılan literatür çalışmasında rutin aktivite teorisinin açıklayıcılığı üzerine çalışmaların sınırlı olması ayrıca dijitalleşmenin hız kazanması ve konunun incelenmesinin erken dönemi olması nedeniyle literatüre katkı sağlamak amaçlanmaktadır.

Keywords

Yapay Zekâ , Suç , Suç Önleme ve Tahminleme , Deepfake , Rutin Aktivite Teorisi

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