Altana Technologies developed an AI-informed supply chain mapping system used by Customs and Border Protection and a number of firms to root out Uyghur forced labor from supply chains.
is playing a role in helping companies and government agencies remove products from the supply chain that are suspected of being tainted by the use of Uyghur-forced labor in China.
Altana Technologies, an AI startup that recently raised $100 million in Series B investment, has developed an AI tool called Altana Atlas, which is being used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to track imports. It is also in use by companies like shipping and logistics giant Maersk, pharmaceutical company Merck and Boston Scientific to map their supply chains to comply with UFLPA and root out forced labor and ensure compliance with sanctions regimes.
The Chinese Communist Party has imposed mass detention on Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang, in addition to forcing them to work in factories. Chinese goods ranging from textiles and apparel to electronics and automobiles have been found to be tainted by the use of Uyghur-forced labor.China’s Xinjiang region
"We’ve been building this bottoms-up view of the world’s physical economy in the form of a supply chain knowledge graph. And again, because the raw materials here, the raw data here is so vast and so messy and there’s no unique identifiers – the only way you can approach that problem is with artificial intelligence."large language models
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