Hackers, criminals, and spies are rapidly adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI), and considerable evidence is emerging of a substantial acceleration in AI-enabled crime. This includes evidence of the use of AI tools for financial crime, phishing, distributed denial of service (DDoS), child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and romance scams. In all these areas, criminal use of AI is already augmenting revenue generation and exacerbating financial and personal harms. Scammers and social engineers,
