In their newsletter, “Hidden in Plain Sight”, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in conjunction with Migration and Refugee Services, addresses the role of the internet and artificial intelligence (AI) in the sexual exploitation of children. The U.S. government defines sex trafficking as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which the person induced to perform such act is under 18 years old. Similarly, labor trafficking is defined as using the above-mentioned tactics in obtaining an individual for labor or services using force, fraud, or coercion for involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery. Traffickers use 1) debt bondage, where persons are compelled into serving the perpetrator’s personal needs such as security for debt control and exploitation; 2) involuntary servitude which involves being compelled to serve another by a scheme, plan, threat of serious harm, physical restraint, abuse, or legal process; and 3) peonage ( also known as debtor’s slavery) where the perpetrator or employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work—usually the income of the worker is very low and the debt so large that he/she will never pay it off. Child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) include, but are not limited to, any representation of a child engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activities. In following weeks, we will discuss how the internet and AI have contributed to the proliferation of these harmful activities.