can ai solve all your emergency management problems?

When I think about all the issues that emergency managers have to deal with I don’t believe that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is what is going to rescue us from a potential future with a diminished Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). While I believe in technology, it is not be all, end all for emergency management. I do agree that every aspect of our future emergency management future will have a technological component, but not tomorrow.

See this article, When Disaster Strikes, Can AI Deliver Where FEMA Doesn’t? and you decide on its validity for your own emergency management situation.

One area that I think is ripe for using AI is to screen all email and voice conversations happening in the Emergency Operations Center (EOC). The idea being to identify those pieces of information that are part of your Essential Elements of Information (EEI) that you have established for a disaster response. If it can work, then the critical needle of information might not get lost in the haystack of information that can deluge an EOC.