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Industry and prosecutors tell House panel AI and blockchain tools are needed to track illicit activity
Summary
Witnesses urged Congress to fund AI‑enabled investigative tools, blockchain analytics and training for law enforcement after describing how criminals use AI at scale and how defenders can employ the same technologies to trace funds and disrupt networks.
Industry representatives and former prosecutors told a House Judiciary subcommittee on July 16, 2025 that fighting AI‑enabled crime will require funded investigative tools, training and stronger public‑private partnerships.
Ari Redbord, global head of policy at TRM Labs and a former federal prosecutor and Treasury official, described a shift in criminal operations: "We are rapidly approaching a world in which the bottleneck for crime is no longer human coordination, but computational power." Redbord said that criminals increasingly use AI to draft phishing emails, scale…
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