BALANCED CTO Corey Clark featured in CBS News segment on AI-Assisted game that fights Human Trafficking
CBS News Texas featured BALANCED Chief Technology Officer, Corey Clark, PhD in its nightly news broadcast in a segment titled The I-Team- Video game helps researchers fight sex trafficking. In that segment, Dr. Clark is interviewed about a project he heads at SMU where they have created a game that utilizes human-in-the-loop AI, a technique that BALANCED Media | Technology pioneered and holds several patents on, to help train a large language model search engine to help investigators find information that can assist them in solving crimes involving human sex trafficking.
Saving investigators valuable timeComputer scientist and project lead Corey Clark said gamers will help investigators by doing a tedious job that—for now—takes them way too long.”Right now, you have investigators, people…manually searching the internet looking at these releases, trying to pull information out, putting in their own database systems, their own reports,” Clark said. “This…
The project features a computer game created by SMU postdoctoral researcher Stephanie Buongiorno called “Dark Shadows”, which was inspired in part by a game created by BALANCED CEO Robert M. Atkins and features technical input from BALANCED‘s development team. In the game, players teach an AI to improve its accuracy and efficiency in identifying and connecting data points from different sources. This approach saves time and resources for law enforcement and anti-trafficking organizations, as well as provides new insights into the patterns and trends of human trafficking in the U.S.
SMU has also created a data warehouse that aims to centralize and analyze nationwide human trafficking data, as well as a cost analysis of the economic impact of this crime.