How AI is helping stop abuse and exploitation of children

When Joelle Casteix envisioned a project to end child abuse, she did not figure that Artificial Intelligence (AI) would play a role. As a founding member of The Zero Abuse Project, Casteix had been working on legal and regulatory aspects of sexual abuse of children. When she decided to build a database to catalog and index records of abuse by institutions, she realized that she needed a powerful tool to make sense of the data. "We never thought AI would be a part of our mission… I was working to figure out how to make organizations and institutions safer for kids. Our number one goal was to build a database: something where, if we needed the information we could get it quickly," explained Casteix speaking to ITU during the recent AI for Good Global Summit.