Reducing Modern Slavery Using AI and Blockchain

Abstract

The Modern Slavery Act of the UK has failed in reducing modern slavery significantly in UK organizations and their supply chains. One of the critical reasons for the failure is that these organizations utilize human-centered modern slavery due diligence processes, which have significant weaknesses in identifying modern slavery offenses. This paper aims to propose modern slavery due diligence process which leverages the self-sovereign digital identity component, an AI-based modern slavery offense monitoring component, and a modern slavery offense blockchain component designed to help improve the identification of modern slavery offenses which would otherwise remain hidden. This process enables managers to identify and act on more modern slavery offenses due to low-cost continuous monitoring instead of high-cost sample-based monitoring. This proposed solution can significantly reduce modern slavery offenses and generate tangible business benefits.