Computational science and artificial intelligence experts are being recruited to help stop the global spread of human trafficking. ASU’s Global Security Initiative recently organized a conference at the United Nations on how to use those technological resources in this effort. Nadya Bliss, the initiative’s director and a professor of practice in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, one of the Fulton Schools, identified the challenges facing this endeavor and described how computer science, advanced security systems and AI-based recognition and detection technology can best be aligned against the forces involved in human trafficking.