The designation employed and material presented in this publication does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoev- er on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. [...] Acknowledgements This report is the product of a joint research initiative on counter-terrorism in the age of artificial intelligence of the Cyber Security and New Technologies Unit of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT) in the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) through its Centre for. [...] The bombing of the Colombo World Trade Centre in October 1997,8 the Bali bombings in October 2002,9 the bombing of Super Ferry 14 in the Manila Bay in February 2004,10 and the Mumbai attacks in November 2008 are all testament to the trials the regions have faced.11 Another global trend that the regions of South Asia and South-East Asia have faced in recent years is that of “digitiza- tion”. [...] Notwithstanding the level of integration of AI into society and the frequency of the popular use of the term, there is no universal definition of “AI”. [...] PROBING THE POTENTIAL OF AI Having taken note of the threat of terrorism in South Asia and South-East Asia, examined key trends and develop- ments related to the “digitalization” in these regions and looked at what this means in terms of the challenges with which law enforcement and counter-terrorism agencies must increasingly grapple, this chapter seeks to present how some of the AI technologies.
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