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Home Office funding boost for AI project to identify tech-facilitated coercive control in text messages

SUBSCRIBE 30th June 2022Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight
A start-up project pioneered by four UK universities is using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify patterns of tech-facilitated coercive control sent by perpetrators through text messages; researchers believe the project, which recently received a £115,000 funding boost from the Home Office, could develop an AI tool that will encourage more victims of domestic abuse and coercive control to come forward, reports Policing Insight’s Keith Potter.

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