This article presents a part of the ongoing Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded project “FloraGuard: Tackling the illegal trade in endangered plants” that relies on cross-disciplinary approaches to analyze online marketplaces for the illegal trade in endangered plants, and explores strategies to develop digital resources to assist law enforcement in countering and disrupting this criminal market. This contribution focuses on how the project brought together computer science, criminology, conservation science, and law enforcement expertise to create a tool for the automatic gathering of relevant online information to be used for research, intelligence, and investigative purposes. The article also discusses the ethical standards applied and proposes the concept of “artificial intelligence (AI) review” to provide a sociotechnical solution that builds trustworthiness in the AI approaches used for this type of cross-disciplinary information and communications technology (ICT)-enabled methodology.

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FloraGuard：通过跨学科 ICT 支持的方法解决濒危植物的在线非法贸易

本文介绍了正在进行的经济和社会研究委员会 (ESRC) 资助的项目“FloraGuard：解决濒危植物非法贸易”的一部分，该项目依赖跨学科方法来分析在线市场上的濒危植物非法贸易，以及探索开发数字资源的策略，以协助执法部门打击和破坏这个犯罪市场。这篇贡献的重点是该项目如何将计算机科学、犯罪学、保护科学和执法专业知识结合起来，以创建一个用于自动收集相关在线信息的工具，以用于研究、情报和调查目的。