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From space rovers to hunger maps: How AI is reshaping humanitarian aid

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed for its potential threats to humanity. But humanitarian organisations are using it to predict hunger, map destruction and deliver aid without sending people into danger.

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00:17The World Food Programme has approached us, I think five years ago, with a use case where
00:22they have been killed, nine blue helmets, by food delivery. And they asked us, but you
00:28don't have that technology for remote operating rovers on the far planet. Could
00:35that be applied to our use case where we don't want to risk any more drivers, or we
00:40bring the people out of the danger zone? So that's why it had started.
00:56Everybody can check it out, HangarMap Live, on the internet. You can get real-time data.
01:00And right now, we're even looking into forecasting food security 90 days into the future.
01:16Within four days after the earthquake, we were able to mobilize more than 600 volunteers that
01:23were basically swiping left and right on a mobile app, indicating, yes, this building area is
01:27damaged, no, this building area is not damaged. And that actually helped early responders to
01:32go to the right areas for food delivery and for all the other necessities that we might
01:36meet right after the earthquake.
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