Artificial intelligence in the criminal law doctrine

Introduction: the article examines theoretical attitudes to the definition of artificial intelligence, discusses the use of socially dangerous innovations in criminal activity. The expediency of taking measures of criminal law artificial intelligence is substantiated. Materials and Methods: universal scientific research and specific scientific methods provided the methodological basis for the study, in particular normative and logical, dialectical-materialistic and other methods. The materials of the research were the Russian legislation, as well as scientific publications. Results: the analysis of the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation indicates that the use of synthetic intellеct for the purpose of implementing criminal intent is not reflected in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In this regard, the author formulated proposals for improving legislation, in particular on the need to introduce additional into the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Discussion and Conclusions: the article discusses approaches to the definition of artificial intelligence, analyzes the ways of using machine intelligence for criminal purposes, and also formulates a proposal to improve the current norms of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, namely, the transformation of the qualifying attribute “using information technology, including the Internet”.