How a US startup is using AI to stop human trafficking


In the past two years, the North Side-based company has used 60,000 posters to identify 734 trafficking victims, all 13 to 25 years old, almost entirely women, and 84% people of colour. — Photo by Steffen Schubert on Unsplash

Human trafficking networks are complex.

But for more than a decade, artificial intelligence has helped one Pittsburgh startup unravel the complexity to spot trends that can help rescue victims and even prosecute those responsible for their exploitation.

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