Posted 12/18/2023, 11:00:00 AM
AI Tracks Fentanyl Ingredient Supply Chains, Aids Major Border Patrol Missions
- Altana uses AI to track companies that make ingredients for fentanyl and where those ingredients are shipped
- The knowledge map shows relationships between suppliers and manufacturers of fentanyl ingredients
- Border Patrol has used the AI technology in two major missions, seizing tons of fentanyl and related ingredients and arresting hundreds
- The AI mapping can chart suppliers and manufacturers using just public data, which would be very difficult manually
- The article questions whether this AI tracking could be exploited by fentanyl distributors and what other security uses it might have