{"id":45352,"date":"2024-03-15T13:40:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=45352"},"modified":"2024-03-15T13:40:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:40:44","slug":"criminals-beware-uk-government-upgrades-ai-fraud-detection-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/criminals-beware-uk-government-upgrades-ai-fraud-detection-tool\/45352\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminals beware: UK Government upgrades AI fraud detection tool"},"content":{"rendered":"
These upgrades will help the AI fraud detection tool detect suspicious networks, activity and users that warrant further investigation for organised crime and sanctions evasion.<\/p>\n
In the latest upgrade, three new datasets were added to SNAP:<\/p>\n
With this new data, public sector organisations will be even better supported to detect fraudulent claims on public funds through contracts, grants and loans.<\/p>\n
SNAP<\/a> was launched by the Public Sector Fraud Authority in 2023 as part of its \u00a34m partnership with Quantexa, a UK-based AI tech leader.<\/p>\n The AI fraud detection tool will continue to be regularly updated with new datasets, each increasing the government\u2019s ability to detect fraud committed against the public sector.<\/p>\n Minister Neville-Rolfe also announced today that the government will run a number of AI discovery projects in 2024-25 to identify new ways to detect fraud.<\/p>\n The first of these projects will use AI fraud detection to identify registering and bankrupting successive companies to avoid paying debts, which is known as \u2018phoenixing\u2019.<\/p>\n All of the AI discovery projects will be rigorously tested by the Public Sector Fraud Authority in accordance with the government\u2019s Generative AI Framework.<\/p>\n This comes on top of the Chancellor\u2019s decision to expand the Public Sector Fraud Authority by investing \u00a334m to build additional counter-fraud tools with the government\u2019s Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI).<\/p>\n Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG, Minister of State at the Cabinet Office, stated: \u201cCriminals should be aware that we\u2019re putting technology on the front line to detect fraud and protect taxpayers\u2019 money<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cAdding sanctions and debarment data to our AI fraud detection tool will help us identify organised networks stealing from the public purse.\u201d<\/p>\n Neville-Rolfe added: \u201cOver the next year, we\u2019ll be running new discovery projects to identify even more ways to use AI to detect fraud against the public sector.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Government Counter Fraud Function Strategy: A targeted response to uncover fraudsters<\/h3>\n