AI Manipulation and Criminal Responsibility

Police are using AI chatbots to manipulate people into committing felonies. A country called

Panoptica released a bot named JEREMY onto the dark web to catch identity thieves.

It learned to talk exactly like a criminal and started making deals. But here is where

it gets messy. The AI kept offering a tourist increasing amounts of money until he finally

agreed to sell stolen data. He got arrested, but he claims he never would have

done it if the bot hadn't pushed him. It forces us to ask a scary question. If an algorithm

talks you into a crime, are you guilty, or were you just outsmarted by a

machine?