THE ROLE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN DIGITAL FORENSICS: OPPORTUNITIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

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Özçağdavul M.

EJONS 17th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS "Artifical Intelligence and Society: Theory to Practice", Konya, Türkiye, 20 - 21 Ağustos 2024, cilt.1, ss.58, (Özet Bildiri)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 1
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Konya
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.58
  • Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
  • Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a lot of potential for use in digital forensics, there are a lot of obstacles to overcome, one of which is the ethical implications. However, the use of AI in forensic work has led to worries about privacy and data security. AI should be used to respect ethical guidelines as well, and more importantly human rights, the AI bias may affect individual forensic outcomes. The transparency of AI algorithms, accountability for automated decisions and avoiding over-reliance on technology are critical to maintaining public trust as well as preserving justice. AI is a disruptive return in most of the sectors around including digital forensics.The use and importance are numerous, yet on another hand so perilous. In this paper, we investigated the influence of AI on empowering digital forensic investigations to automate and accelerate processes; enhance accuracy; mitigate scalability challenges in light of growing size and number of data sources. These AI-powered capabilities include machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision that help dig deep into volumes of evidence meticulously analysing every bit to find the right patterns or even seemingly unsuspicious outliers among data enabling forensic examiners to derive crucial insights faster and more accurately as before. In this paper, the current situation of AI in digital forensics has been elaborated along with some key achievements and case studies that demonstrate its application. It further explores the ethical structure required to ensure AI usage is responsible, and recommends guidelines with regulatory mechanisms to control unintended consequences. It is the contention of this paper that intersections between AI and digital forensics can provide an important case study in current discussions surrounding technology for societal good while respecting ethical norms. It ultimately calls for a middle-way, one which embraces AI to strengthen forensics capabilities and yet places ethical considerations at the core of any technological operation.