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.

About the Author
Arianna Vedaschi, Full Professor of Comparative Public Law and Chiara Graziani, Assistant Professor of Comparative Public Law, Bocconi University, Italy

Reviews
'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
'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 Ni Aolain KC (Hons), University of Minnesota Law School, USA, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK and UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights (2017-2023)
'A truly important book for understanding, on a comparative legal basis, the complex interaction between law and technology in relation to the contrast of terrorism.' -- Giorgio Resta, Roma Tre University, Italy



Book Information
ISBN 9781803928333
Author Arianna Vedaschi
Format Hardback
Page Count 172
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd