Criminal Accountability for Perpetrators of Electronic Publishing Crimes through the Application of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Jordanian Legislation

Abstract

 This study focuses on identifying individuals involved in publishing criminalized content through licensed websites or personal electronic pages, while highlighting the role of artificial intelligence technologies in addressing criminal responsibility for these publishers. The study examines the electronic interactions with the published content to assess its level of danger and measure the extent of community engagement with it. The problem of the study lies in the difficulty of identifying those responsible for electronic publishing crimes, as well as the technical challenges facing investigative and judicial bodies in utilizing artificial intelligence technologies to monitor and analyze these interactions. The study aims to explore the extent to which artificial intelligence can assist investigative and judicial authorities in analyzing interactions with criminalized content and how these technologies contribute to enabling judges to individualize penalties for publishers. The study relies on an analytical approach to address its subject. 

The study concluded with several key findings, the most important of which are: the scope of criminal liability for electronic publishing crimes extends to include the content writer, the editor-in-chief of the legally licensed website, in addition to the publisher, the re-publisher, and the commenter on the content published on personal electronic pages. It was also found that artificial intelligence technologies enable investigative and judicial authorities to analyze electronic interactions and assist the judge in individualizing penalties according to the level of influence and community interaction with the published content. 

The study recommended the integration of artificial intelligence technologies into criminal investigation procedures to analyze interactions with criminalized content published through electronic means, and the adoption of these technologies by the judiciary when individualizing penalties for publishers involved in electronic publishing crimes, based on fair and objective criteria that consider the severity of the content and its societal impact.