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Experts urge Congress to set guardrails for AI and survivor data in trafficking investigations
Summary
Witnesses warned that biased or poorly governed AI could misdirect investigations and retraumatize survivors; they urged transparency, limits on retention, auditing, and survivor consent before datasets are used.
Experts told a House Oversight subcommittee that AI and other digital tools can help identify trafficking networks, but only if Congress requires clear standards for data quality, transparency and limits on retention.
Roy Austin, director of the Artificial Intelligence Initiative at Howard University, said AI systems are ‘‘only as sound as the data upon which they are trained’’ and cautioned that incomplete or biased datasets can “distort results, misdirect…
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