Can AI help catch oceanic outlaws? From drug smugglers to modern-day pirates, maritime crime fighter Dyhia Belhabib introduces Hava: an AI-powered tool that aggregates international criminal records to detect and stop crime that might otherwise get swept away in the tide.

Scientists get funded if they are published in peer-reviewed journals, but to get published in peer-reviewed journals one must have well-funded projects. Whether certain communities are deliberately excluded from this cycle or simply victims of unquestioned habitual colonialism, either way the sum total of human knowledge is lesser. Dr. Belhabib...