Using AI to Protect Children Online

Lisa Thee leads Launch Consulting Group's Data for Good practice, where she helps the world's most innovative healthcare and global technology companies improve digital safety using AI and machine learning. Previously, Lisa was the Co-founder and CEO of Minor Guard, an AI software company focused on making children safer online and in real life. She also currently serves as an advisory board member for Humaxa, tCheck, Spectrum Labs, and Marketplace Risk, and as a member of the Board of Directors for 3Strands Global Foundation. Lisa has been named as a top thought leader and woman in business by Thinkers360. Additionally, she is the co-author of Demystifying Artificial Intelligence for the Enterprise and the host of the Navigating Forward podcast. In this episode… We all want to protect our children online — and AI is proving to be an incredibly effective tool for doing just that. So, how exactly can you use AI to eliminate crimes like child pornogrophy and human trafficking? If a child is missing and officials suspect the child is being trafficked, there's a 75% chance they're being sold online. But, if the only option detectives have is to scroll through ad after ad, they are wasting valuable time to find the missing child. With AI facial recognition technology, on the other hand, a computer can do a much quicker search and identify the closest matches. Now, police can quickly recover the child and build a case against the trafficker instead of wasting precious time scrolling. In this episode of She Said Privacy/He Said Security, Jodi and Justin Daniels sit down with Lisa Thee, the lead for Launch Consulting Group's Data for Good practice, to talk about using AI to protect children online. Lisa explains how AI can speed up criminal research, her tips for protecting your children's privacy and security, and how to better collaborate as a society to combat human trafficking.