Artificial Intelligence, Counter-Terrorism and the Rule of Law

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Artificial Intelligence, Counter-Terrorism and the Rule of Law

At the Heart of National Security

9781803928333 Edward Elgar Publishing
Arianna Vedaschi, Full Professor of Comparative Public Law and Chiara Graziani, Assistant Professor of Comparative Public Law, Bocconi University, Italy
Publication Date: May 2025 ISBN: 978 1 80392 833 3 Extent: c 176 pp
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This insightful book examines the use of advanced technology, specifically artificial intelligence (AI), both as a tool in the hands of terrorists and as a powerful security counter-measure. It sheds light on the legal issues arising from the presence of AI in national security matters and identifies how AI can be regulated in this sensitive field.

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This insightful book examines the use of advanced technology, specifically artificial intelligence (AI), both as a tool in the hands of terrorists and as a powerful security counter-measure. It sheds light on the legal issues arising from the presence of AI in national security matters and identifies how AI can be regulated in this sensitive field.

Arianna Vedaschi and Chiara Graziani illustrate the importance of safeguarding human rights while utilising advanced counter-terrorism tools and analyse the consequent legal challenges posed by AI . Adopting a comparative legal perspective, this book provides a comprehensive overview of counter-terrorism in Western democracies and advocates for a regulatory framework on the use of AI in national security.

This book is an essential resource for scholars and students of comparative law, constitutional and administrative law, global and transnational law and terrorism and security law. Judicial and human rights practitioners will also benefit from this volume.
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‘This book provides important insights into the critical intersection of AI with counter-terrorism in democratic countries. Addressing the ways in which technology shapes both terrorism and counter-terrorism, the authors provide a fresh and distinctive take on the triangle of rights, counter-terrorism and AI. Technically proficient, insightful and thoughtful the book will be an asset to scholars and policy-makers.’
– Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons), University of Minnesota Law School, USA and The Queen’s University of Belfast, UK

‘While states and terrorists have always used emerging technology in their endeavours, there has seldom been an emerging technology with the reach, implications, and possibilities of AI. In this masterful book, Vedaschi and Graziani skilfully merge law, computer science, psychology and more to provide the authoritative account of how AI enables terrorist actors, promises security, and challenges the rule of law.’
– Fiona de Londras, University of Birmingham, UK

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