From C/O (counter-OPFOR) Futures, August 1:
This subject bibliography, which contains resources published between 2013 and 2025 with an emphasis on newer works, explores the evolving intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), logistics, and autonomous systems as they relate to transnational criminal and narco-terrorist organizations, with a primary focus on Latin American cartels. Specifically, it examines how AI- driven tools—such as machine learning, geospatial analytics, and natural language processing— are being leveraged both by illicit networks to optimize trafficking routes and by law enforcement agencies to disrupt them. The latter can, in turn, be ‘blue teamed’ by illicit organizations for countermeasures development. The work focuses on extracting, analyzing, and organizing the academic literature alongside news reports to better understand how contemporary AI—typically, but not exclusively, generative artificial intelligence (GEN AI)—is being weaponized and/or operationally employed by organized criminal organizations and across illicit flows...
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