As we start 2025, I’m crammed with each dedication and hope as I mirror on Thorn’s journey and the important work that lies forward.
The digital panorama continues to evolve at a speedy tempo, bringing each new challenges and alternatives in our mission to defend kids from sexual abuse and exploitation within the digital age. The necessity for our work is pressing – and the threats dealing with kids on-line have gotten more and more complicated, refined, and widespread.
But I’ve by no means been extra assured in our potential to satisfy these challenges head-on, because of our devoted crew, companions, prospects, and donors who share our imaginative and prescient of a world the place each youngster will be protected, curious, and joyful.
Listed below are the important thing areas the place Thorn will focus our efforts in 2025:
- Advancing technical innovation in a quickly evolving digital world: As generative synthetic intelligence (AI) and different rising applied sciences reshape our digital panorama, Thorn stays on the forefront of creating revolutionary options to guard kids.
Our technical groups are pioneering new approaches to eradicate cases of kid sexual abuse materials (CSAM) on the net, leveraging superior AI whereas guaranteeing moral deployment and security by design.
This 12 months, we’ll proceed to scale our options globally whereas persevering with to boost our instruments. This contains Safer – which continues to evolve, serving to extra firms detect, overview, and report CSAM effectively and successfully. We’re additionally ideating and creating new applied sciences that may assist us keep forward of rising threats and higher shield kids in an more and more complicated digital surroundings. - Deepening and sharing the affect of our analysis: Understanding the altering nature of on-line dangers to kids is essential for creating efficient options. In 2025, we’re investing in our analysis initiatives to supply very important insights into rising threats and youth experiences on-line. This analysis won’t solely inform our personal work however may even assist information the broader youngster safety group.
- Empowering frontline investigators: Our dedication to supporting the investigators on the frontlines of figuring out and rescuing youngster victims – people who’ve a few of the most troublesome and taxing jobs on the planet – stays unwavering. In 2025, we’re persevering with to share instruments – like our CSAM Classifier – and different assets that may assist these frontline defenders work extra effectively and successfully in figuring out youngster victims of abuse and eradicating them from hurt.
Wanting forward: a revamped technique for Thorn’s subsequent chapter
Because the digital panorama turns into more and more complicated, Thorn will proceed to adapt, change, and scale our affect. The speedy development of AI and different rising applied sciences presents each challenges and alternatives in our combat towards youngster sexual abuse. However with these challenges comes unprecedented potential for innovation and affect.
Hold your eye in your inbox, as a result of within the coming months, we’ll be sharing extra about our imaginative and prescient for the longer term – and we’ll launch our new, expanded organizational technique to satisfy this second.
None of this is able to be attainable with out your help – thanks. You gas our revolutionary approaches that enable us to proceed to scale our affect globally whereas remaining agile sufficient to handle new threats as they emerge.
Collectively, we’re making actual, tangible change for kids – and I stay up for advancing this work collectively in 2025 and past.
