A3ML: Anti-Money Laundering

DARPA seeks to revolutionize the practice of anti-money laundering through its A3ML program. A3ML aims to develop algorithms to sift through financial transactions graphs for suspicious patterns, learn new patterns to anticipate future activities, and develop techniques to represent patterns of illicit financial behavior in a concise, machine-readable format that is also easily understood by human analysts. Watch this video to learn more.

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00:00:00 today money laundering or elicit Finance more generally directly harms America's citizens and Global interests so for example there have been reports from the White House stating that North Korea finances at least half of their nuclear program using stolen cryptocurrency in order to purchase material required for that nuclear program you have to turn that cryptocurrency into fiat currency

00:00:25 things like dollars or Euros that's used to go and buy things to build nuclear weapons the name of the program is anticipatory and adaptive anti-money laundering we're interested in developing technology to combat illicit Financial transactions more broadly so this can be currencies this can be cryptocurrencies artworks or Collectibles all sorts of things of this

00:00:46 nature are used to move value around the world in ways that threaten US National Security there are signatures of behavior that our adversaries exhibit finding these signatures automatically using an algorithm at scale would completely revolutionize the way in which anti-money laundering is conducted in the United States if you're a financial institution who understands

00:01:09 how payment systems work or how high net worth individuals move their wealth around the world if you're a really dedicated academic or you're in the defense industrial base and you can develop state-of-the-art graph algorithms or if you're a crypto Enthusiast that understands the Myriad ways digital assets are used today we want to work with you this program is

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