Can AI help catch oceanic outlaws? From drug smugglers to modern-day pirates, maritime crime fighter Dyhia Belhabib introduces Heva: an AI-powered tool that aggregates international criminal records to detect and stop crime that might otherwise get swept away in the tide. Watch her TED Talk or read the transcript below. I am a scientist, and for a living, I snitch on, profile and investigate ocean crime and its behaviour, which for someone who A) cannot swim — I sink like a needle, and B) was born in a small landlocked Algerian village, seems unlikely. Yet here I was, a few years ago in the port of Dakar in Senegal, to investigate a Spanish-owned vessel under the name The Asian Warrior. The vessel was on Interpol’s radar for illegal ...
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