Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play a vital role in disaster management, specially in minimising losses but it would need legal and policy framework for such new age technologies to be able to be relied upon by officials at ground level who would take decisions for preventive actions, a top official of UNDRR said on Monday.
Addressing a session at the AI Impact Summit, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Chief Intergovernmental Interagency cooperation and Partnerships Branch Sujit Mohanty said India has done a lot of work in using AI predictive analysis in disaster management.
“This whole technology space is really growing well, growing fast… You are seeing solutions which were not possible earlier…,” he said, citing the usage of AI in predicting and analysing the risk disasters.
However, he said, “At the same time, I think we should be mindful that, at the end of the day, is it really helping those who are there to make decision of people’s life and thei​Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play a vital role in disaster management, specially in minimising losses but it would need legal and policy framework for such new age technologies to be able to be relied upon by officials at ground level who would take decisions for preventive actions, a top official of UNDRR said on Monday.
Addressing a session at the AI Impact Summit, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Chief Intergovernmental Interagency cooperation and Partnerships Branch Sujit Mohanty said India has done a lot of work in using AI predictive analysis in disaster management.
“This whole technology space is really growing well, growing fast… You are seeing solutions which were not possible earlier…,” he said, citing the usage of AI in predicting and analysing the risk disasters.
However, he said, “At the same time, I think we should be mindful that, at the end of the day, is it really helping those who are there to make decision of people’s life and thei ​Latest News [ SOBAN NEWS: International and National ]
