A digital artificial intelligence company plans to donate its technology to nonprofits whose goal is to find children who are being exploited in the human trafficking industry.
Human trafficking is considered to be one of the fastest-growing crimes around the world and is estimated to be a $150 billion-a-year global criminal enterprise.
And a huge number of its victims are innocent children.Â
According to the FBI, there were nearly 360,000 cases of missing children in 2022, while the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received more than 32 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation that year.
Experts say technology is giving predators an advantage against those working to save children.Â
“I say to myself, ‘My God, the lawyer for this dirtbag predator is smarter and more sophisticated than the cops are’,” John Walsh, the co-founder of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, told The Associated Press. “They don’t really know the technology.”
Walsh, the longtime host of “America’s Most Wanted” told the outlet human traffickers and sexual predators often use high-end technology and increasingly take advantage of encryption to protect the details of their crimes.
“The pimps of the day, the gangs of today are way smarter
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