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Ask before you Build: Rethinking AI-for-Good in Human Trafficking Interventions
Pratheeksha Nair, Gabriel Lefebvre, Sophia Garrel, Maryam Molamohammadi, Reihaneh Rabbany
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22512

Ask before you Build: Rethinking AI-for-Good in Human Trafficking Interventions
AI for good initiatives often rely on the assumption that technical interventions can resolve complex social problems. In the context of human trafficking (HT), such techno-solutionism risks oversimplifying exploitation, reinforcing power imbalances and causing harm to the very communities AI claims to support. In this paper, we introduce the Radical Questioning (RQ) framework as a five step, pre-project ethical assessment tool to critically evaluate whether AI should be built at all, especiall…