Policing Vulnerability to Criminal Persuasive Technology Use on Futurist Moon Bases

Abstract

There have been increasing demonstrations of criminal enterprises normalizing the adaptation of persuasive
technologies to target and victimize people all over the world online and offline. Persuasive technologies include any
software or hardware that we interact with that can influence our behaviors, including changing our behaviors or maintaining
our behaviors, making people vulnerable to behavioral or technical exploitation of our information and communication. This
vulnerability may be heightened in isolated environments like futurist Moon Bases, suggesting there may be a unique
victimology for people living and working on a Moon Base. To counter this activity, in theory, policing criminal persuasive
technology use on a Moon Base environment must consider the behavioral design of persuasive technologies and this unique
victimology. This practitioner’s paper will discuss the shifting research direction of persuasive technologies toward
deception, since the introduction of this model focused on improving people’s health almost two decades ago, suggesting
that generative artificial intelligence and machine learning will accelerate adaptive, deceptive persuasive technologies. This
paper will visualize theoretical scenarios describing how criminal enterprises could victimize people on Moon Bases with
persuasive technology design specific to that environment. This paper provides a comparative example when considering
Arctic contexts as similar isolated environments. These futurist theoretical scenarios provide some demonstrations of
criminal behaviors using persuasive technologies to victimize people, highlighting the unique victimology of users in isolated
environments of interest to criminals and nations alike.