Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: There have been increasing demonstrations of criminal enterprises normalizing the adaptation of persuasivetechnologies to target and victimize people all over the world online and offline. Persuasive technologies include anysoftware or hardware that we interact with that can influence our behaviors, including changing our behaviors or maintainingour behaviors, making people vulnerable to behavioral or technical exploitation of our information and communication. Thisvulnerability may be heightened in isolated environments like futurist Moon Bases, suggesting there may be a uniquevictimology for people living and working on a Moon Base. To counter this activity, in theory, policing criminal persuasivetechnology use on a Moon Base environment must consider the behavioral design of persuasive technologies and this uniquevictimology. This practitioner’s paper will discuss the shifting research direction of persuasive technologies towarddeception, since the introduction of this model focused on improving people’s health almost two decades ago, suggestingthat generative artificial intelligence and machine learning will accelerate adaptive, deceptive persuasive technologies. Thispaper will visualize theoretical scenarios describing how criminal enterprises could victimize people on Moon Bases withpersuasive technology design specific to that environment. This paper provides a comparative example when consideringArctic contexts as similar isolated environments. These futurist theoretical scenarios provide some demonstrations ofcriminal behaviors using persuasive technologies to victimize people, highlighting the unique victimology of users in isolatedenvironments of interest to criminals and nations alike.
Author: Tim Pappa
Institution: Capitol Technology University
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7130657809