How is better prevention of natural disasters possible?

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The United Nations has set up a global initiative to find AI solutions to improve resilience to natural disasters. People around the globe are meant to benefit.

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00:00We're seeing AI being used to digest data in real time, to monitor how a situation evolves.

00:05For instance, to see how a wildfire propagates and grows so that people can evacuate in time.

00:13We're also seeing AI being used to get situational awareness, to digest geolocated

00:20social media posts, to see where first responders should go first to help people.

00:25We're also seeing AI being used to detect changes in before and after imagery,

00:29to see where damage was the worst.

00:33Monique Kuglich heads a global UN initiative.

00:37Its aim? To show both governments and organizations

00:40how AI can help make people more resilient to natural disasters.

00:47We're seeing that AI is becoming a really important part of disaster management.

00:52On the other hand, we also see that disasters, unfortunately, are getting worse.

00:56We need to find a way that we can benefit from AI

01:00to reduce the impacts of disasters, but in a responsible way.

01:06At the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin,

01:08her team is working on international standards for using AI in disaster management.

01:15One major issue is transparency.

01:18Users need to understand where the data comes from and how it gets analyzed.

01:24Currently, every country has its own methods to monitor disasters.

01:29Global standards could help improve cooperation.

01:35Just to give an example, if you have a hurricane that's brewing in the Caribbean,

01:39you have a lot of different states that are represented in the Caribbean.

01:43If it's feasible to make sure that the, let's say if we have an AI-based forecasting system,

01:49to make sure that it's interoperable with each other,

01:52then you can have continuous coverage. That's incredible.

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