Reflections on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Forensics

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” (Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

Introduction

An Artificial Intelligence is, basically, the association between an algorithm (or algorithms) and a set of data prepared for decision making. The algorithm is trained on this database and learns from that data. There are a variety of AIs applied from pattern recognition to the creation of images from certain guidelines passed to an algorithm by the end user. With some freedom, the user can create any image by inserting some guidelines. For example, with the guidelines "Monet", "impressionism" and "painting", an AI can create an image. In a scarier scenario, a video can be created by making people believe that a famous actor is "really" in that scene when it's all just a fake video: someone created the video, and the AI superimposed the face of the famous actor over the face of the creator of the video.

I. AI: Hazards and Efficiencies

In the United States, concern about the uncontrolled advance of AI gained ground with the testimonies of representatives of Google and IBM that took place a few days ago on the need to establish controls in AI usability, application, and development. On the other hand, controlled AI can serve as a brake on possible unpredictable and dangerous....