A.I. Could Help Combat Modern Slavery, if Humans Don't Mess It Up

Such technologically aided tracking could be a big breakthrough for anti-slavery organizations that work in the region. These groups have already identified broad swaths of Pakistan, Nepal, and India--nicknamed the Brick Belt--where these kilns operate. The kilns are easy to spot in aerial photos, so the team has been using satellite images to pinpoint their locations. But they've been slowed by the vetting speeds of human volunteers. By manually mining the enormous set of images from the region, they've only been able to catalogue a fraction of the estimated 20,000 to 50,000 sites. Now, however, SFS aims to have a computer do that painstaking work.