AI Joins the Search for Missing Kids - iQ by Intel

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) looks to new artificial intelligence (AI) tech to solve and deter the horrors of human trafficking and child abduction. From gathering leads that can help law enforcement find kids at risk to catching the criminals who exploit them, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) relies heavily on its CyberTipline. What once was a trickle of data has turned into a flood of images, written reports, IP addresses, email addresses and much more. NCMEC's ambitions are to not only cope with the flood of information, but turn it into better, more actionable insights, more quickly. The organization increasingly turns to technology, including emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities -- from finding patterns in reams of IP addresses to matching background items in a sea of grainy photographs.