As money laundering is a global threat, with approximately US$800 billion to US$2 trillion being laundered yearly, it is important to come up with new and stronger solutions to combat illicit activities. Among the most exploited entities for money laundering are financial institutions, and more specifically banks. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis has been to investigate the usability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a decision-maker in the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) department to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. Moreover, the main research question was to explore the usability of AI as a decision-maker within AML operations. To enable this, an important aspect was to understand what regulatory and compliance requirements are demanded on AI from the AML departments. Thereafter, it was necessary to understand AI’s technical functionalities to facilitate the department’s daily operations. The literature review presented the fundamentals of AML and their precautionary actions. Furthermore, in the second phase of the literature review, the fundamentals of AI were investigated. Lastly, a combination of the topics of AML and AI were reviewed to identify techniques that the AML department can implement. Moreover, the methodology of the thesis consisted of a qualitative research design with an inductive approach. In the findings, a framework was constructed from the obtained results (second order themes). Subsequently, those themes were further developed into aggregated dimensions, which were extensively elaborated on in the conclusion. Thereafter, the dimensions were categorized into either the compliance criteria or the functional criteria. Also, the dimensions were presented in the order of priority based on how critical they are. To answer the main research question, AI is usable in the AML department as a decision-maker when considering the aggregated dimensions. Essentially, AI can successfully be implemented into the AML department’s daily operations when all the dimensions are achieved. / Då penningtvätt är ett globalt hot, där det uppskattas att det årligen tvättas 800 miljarder till 2 biljoner amerikanska dollar, är det viktigt att komma med nya och motståndskraftigare lösningar som bekämpar illegala verksamheter. Finansiella institutioner är bland de mest utsatta enheterna för penningtvätt, däribland banker som är mest exponerade. Därför var syftet med masterexamensarbetet att undersöka användbarheten av artificiell intelligens (AI) som beslutsfattare på avdelningen som bekämpar penningtvätt och finansiering av terrorism. Vidare var huvudfrågeställningen att utforska användbarheten av AI som beslutsfattare inom arbetsuppgifterna för avdelningen som bekämpar penningtvätt. För att möjliggöra detta var en viktig aspekt att förstå vilka lagstadgade- och efterlevnadskrav som ställdes på AI från avdelningen som bekämpar penningtvätt. Därefter måste man förstå AI:s tekniska funktioner för att underlätta avdelningens dagliga verksamhet. I litteraturstudien presenterades de grundläggande faktorerna för bekämpning av penningtvätt och deras försiktighetsåtgärder. Vidare i den andra fasen av litteraturstudien undersöktes de grundläggande faktorerna för AI. Slutligen granskades litteratur som behandlade en kombination av ämnena bekämpning av penningtvätt och AI för att identifiera tekniker som avdelningen för bekämpning av penningtvätt kan implementera. Dessutom bestod masterexamensarbetet av en kvalitativ forskningsdesign med en induktiv forskningsprocess. I resultatdelen framställdes ett ramverk utifrån de erhållna resultaten (andra ordningens teman). Därefter utvecklades dessa teman vidare till aggregerade dimensioner, som beskrevs utförligt i slutsatsen. Därpå blev dimensionerna kategoriserade i antingen efterlevnadskriterier eller funktionella kriterier. Dimensionerna presenterades även i prioritetsordning baserat på deras kritiska innebörd. Studien föreslog att AI är användbart på avdelningen som bekämpar penningtvätt som beslutsfattare när de aggregerade dimensionerna tas i beaktning. I huvudsak kan AI framgångsrikt implementeras i avdelningens dagliga verksamhet för att bekämpa penningtvätt när alla dimensioner har uppnåtts.

Im interested in the topic of praying machine, because I want to analyze aspects of photography and its functions. It's known, that the reality is manipulated by photography. Bud we can also say, that the relationship between reality and photography is neutral in fact, that the manipulation is made by our interpretation of photography. The change of the reality can be realized just in the dialog between photography and reality. Can it be, that the mechanization change into the will? Does it prays praying mill or the buddhistic monk, who rotates the mill? When he believes into it, is it enough? Or is it enough if believes who watch the monk with his mill? ... The computers from he place A are "praying" the prayers from the place B. With Tomáš Javůrek we collaborated with Vladimír Veselý and Radek Lát to create the Game for re-articulation our reality on the base of the revision of our faith.

This thesis is an investigation of the complex processes and relationships between the physical human performer and the technologically manufactured cyber-human counterpart. I acted as both researcher and the physical human performer, deeply engaged in the moment-to-moment creation of events unfolding within a shared virtual reality environment. As the primary instigator and activator of the cyber-human partner, I maintained a balance between the live and technological performance elements, prioritizing the production of content and meaning. By way of using practice as research, this thesis argues that in considering interactions between cyber-human and human performers, it is crucial to move beyond discussions of technology when considering interactions between cyber-humans and human performers to an analysis of emotional content, the powers of poetic imagery, the trust that is developed through sensory perception and the evocation of complex relationships. A theoretical model is constructed to describe the relationship between a cyber-human and a human performer in the five works created specifically for this thesis, which is not substantially different from that between human performers. Technological exploration allows for the observation and analysis of various relationships, furthering an expanded understanding of ‘movement as content’ beyond the electronic connection. Each of the works created for this research used new and innovative technologies, including virtual reality, multiple interactive systems, six generations of wearable computers, motion capture technology, high-end digital lighting projectors, various projection screens, smart electronically charged fabrics, multiple sensory sensitive devices and intelligent sensory charged alternative performance spaces. They were most often collaboratively created in order to augment all aspects of the performance and create the sense of community found in digital live dance performances/events. These works are identified as one continuous line of energy and discovery, each representing a slight variation on the premise that a working, caring, visceral and poetic content occurs beyond the technological tools. Consequently, a shift in the physical human’s psyche overwhelms the act of performance. Scholarship and reflection on the works have been integral to my creative process throughout. The goals of this thesis, the works created and the resulting methodologies are to investigate performance to heighten the multiple ways we experience and interact with the world. This maximizes connection and results in a highly interactive, improvisational, dynamic, non-linear, immediate, accessible, agential, reciprocal, emotional, visceral and transformative experience without boundaries between the virtual and physical for physical humans, cyborgs and cyber-humans alike.