Feb 28, 2026 18:46 UTC·9 MIN READ
Rebuilding faces and identifying tattoos, AI joins the search for the missing in Mexico
“I couldn’t finish watching it the first time,” Héctor Flores said in an interview when the video was first produced.
Human Rights Watch reports that the government has not taken sufficient measures to prevent disappearances or punish those responsible.
Universities, search collectives, other organizations and government authorities have developed and implemented AI to investigate missing persons, using techniques including database analysis, forensic identification or age-progression projections.
The laboratory has developed three projects that incorporate artificial intelligence in the search for disappeared persons.
Serrano demonstrated how IdentIA conducts a tattoo search in a matter of seconds and enables cross-referencing with reports of missing persons.