Join the Regional Support Office of the Bali Process and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) for a discussion of the linkages between trafficking in persons and technology, looking into the use of artificial intelligence, social media, cryptocurrencies and other new and emerging technologies by transnational crime groups and how they are likely to be used and abused into the future.The discussion will also serve as the Asia-Pacific launch of the OSCE - RSO policy brief "New Frontiers: The Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Trafficking in Persons" which explores one of the most pressing emerging challenges in countering trafficking in persons: the exploitation of artificial intelligence by trafficking recruiters and transnational criminal organisations.
The report describes how traffickers are already leveraging AI in contexts such as Southeast Asia’s cyber-scam centres and begins a discussion on how traffickers and transnational criminal organisations are likely to use AI to support their operations moving forward.
The event will feature a presentation of the policy brief, followed by a panel discussion of how AI and other technologies are being misused by traffickers and transnational criminal organisations, from cyber-scam centers to online sex trafficking recruitment networks, while also looking ahead to emerging threats and innovative law enforcement responses.
Drawing on insights from across Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America, the panel will offer recommendations for technology companies, governments and civil society organisations working to prevent technology-facilitated trafficking.
Moderator: Ryan Winch, transnational crime and technology programme manager, RSO.
Speakers:
Radu Cucos, technology and trafficking in human beings programme lead, OSCE.
Mina Chiang, director, Humanity Research Consultancy.
Kristina Amerhauser, senior analyst, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
Jake Sims, co-founder/managing director, Operation Shamrock and visiting expert on transnational crime, United States Institute for Peace.
This is not an FCCT-organized event.
Free and open to all.
Event Venue
Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand - FCCT, 518/5 Ploenchit Road, Maneeya Center, Penthouse,Bangkok, Thailand
