68 – The girl who taught AI to protect children

The girl who taught AI to protect children.

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Chow Sze Lok wasn’t born a genius. She’s a 17-year-old student at St. Mary’s Canossian College in Hong Kong. She studies, does homework, lives like many teenagers. Until one day she reads about cases of abuse in childcare centers. What shocks her most isn’t only the violence. It’s how no adult noticed the warning signs.

Her starting point is almost laughable: an old laptop. No lab, no funding. Just her and the belief that technology could protect kids. She dives into computer vision, spends endless nights coding, failing, restarting. Six months of pure persistence.

That’s how Kid-AID was born. A system that doesn’t just record. It watches, recognizes, alerts. It flags suspicious interactions in real time inside daycare centers. It gives CCTV new eyes. A fragile prototype, but it works.

Then come the trials by fire: competitions. At the Hong Kong Science Fair, her project surprises the judges. At the international InfoMatrix contest, she wins again. A teenager with an old laptop, beating projects from teams backed by serious money.

The impact is huge. Kid-AID becomes a symbol of a different kind of AI. Not built to maximize clicks or sell ads, but to protect the most vulnerable. That’s the full hero’s journey: she starts small, faces obstacles, builds her tool, and returns with a gift for the community.

Chow didn’t just write code. She proved that the boldest innovations don’t come from Silicon Valley. They come from those who dare to look where others look away.

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