Law enforcement is always looking for ways to keep drugs out of the country and into your neighborhood. Agencies are now turning to artificial intelligence to help keep us safe, especially on the southern border. That's where Border Patrol agents found nearly 99 percent of the fentanyl smuggled into the United States.
A drug like fentanyl can be nearly impossible to find using orthodox methods alone. To help, the government is expanding a $9 million contract awarded to global supply chain startup platform Altana to use an AI tool to track fentanyl production.
How AI is used to track fentanyl production
Altana uses artificial intelligence to track companies that manufacture ingredients used to make fentanyl. It also tracks where these ingredients are shipped from. Agents can then use this information to shut down the production and distribution networks of the deadly synthetic opioid.
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