Compliance

Use of AI (aggravating circumstance)

Sentencing aggravation when AI materially contributes to a crime.

Definition

A statutory aggravating circumstance permitting a judge to increase custodial penalties by up to one third above the statutory maximum when an offense was committed through, or materially facilitated by, an AI system—including where AI meaningfully aided planning, execution, dissemination, or concealment of the illegal act.