The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will use a monitoring system powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to protect athletes and officials from online abuse at the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics in Paris this summer. The system will monitor thousands of accounts on all major social media platforms and in more than 35 languages in real time, the IOC explained in a statement on Tuesday. “Any identified threats will be flagged, so that abusive messages can be dealt with effectively by the relevant social media platforms – in many cases before the athlete has even had the chance to see the ab…