AI helping remove Chinese goods made with Uyghur forced labor from corporate supply chains

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a role in helping companies and government agencies remove products from the supply chain that are suspected of being tainted by the use of Uyghur-forced labor in China.

The Chinese government persecutes the Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities who reside in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region – requiring them to work in factories against their will and subjecting them to mass incarceration in “reeducation camps” among other human rights abuses. The U.S. and several other countries have said the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) actions amount to genocide. The CCP denies those allegations, claiming the camps are needed for counterterrorism and “vocational training