Naveen Dhar is a 17-year-old in San Diego who taught himself to code and built an AI that catches poachers by listening for gunshots in the jungle.

Every AI designed to detect gunshots in the jungle has failed the same way: the forest is too loud.

Branches, rain, animals. 9 out of 10 alerts were false. Rangers facing armed poachers stopped trusting them.

Google tried in Cameroon, flagging over 1,700 sounds as gunshots. Three were real.

Dhar built his own AI from scratch, and his version almost never gives a false alarm.

Trained on sounds from Belize, it works in Africa and Vietnam without changes.

He presented at one of the biggest AI conferences in the world before graduating high school.

Rangers have been risking their lives on broken alerts for years. The person who fixed them is a self-taught teenager 9,000 miles away!