🛡 A schoolgirl from Texas created an AI platform to detect cyber fraudsters and was named Time's "Kid of the Year"

In an interview, 17-year-old Tejasvi Manoj said that her 85-year-old grandfather was about to transfer $2,000 to fraudsters. Still, his relatives stopped him at the last moment.

Tejasvi started programming at the age of 13. Her parents, who are IT specialists, helped her develop the Shield Seniors AI-powered platform.

Users can upload suspicious text or messages, and AI will classify them as scams or legitimate with up to 95% accuracy. A built-in chatbot answers questions with simple, short messages in large font to make the service easy to use for seniors.

"If you ask ChatGPT or Gemini questions about cybersecurity, they are going to give you, like, 10 paragraphs of answers with very hard-to-understand terminology. That works for some people, but it doesn't work for most older adults," Tejasvi Manoj says. 

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