With Traffickers Using AI to Target Kids, Anti-Traffickers Use New AI Tools to Rescue Hundreds

According to government statistics, nearly 50 million people are trafficked into modern slavery. Some of the weapons these traffickers use are the same social media apps, dating platforms, and online games used around the world.

"One is the efficiency of their exploitation," said Haley McNamara, Executive Director and Chief Strategy Officer at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. "There've been reports of them using chatbots to help edit their language, to appear more like children in their tone or style of speech. And also, even asking some chatbots for step-by-step guidelines on how to initiate grooming and relationship building with children."

In an interview with CBN News, McNamara highlighted other ways traffickers are using artificial intelligence to their advantage, including the targeting of children...