Artificial-intelligence tools and community science can help in places where data are scarce, so long as funding for data collection does not falter in the future. Facebook Email Volunteer researchers have been collecting litter data on Ghana’s coast, which the government is now including in its official statistics on the environment. Of the myriad applications of artificial intelligence (AI), its use in humanitarian assistance is underappreciated. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Togo’s government used AI tools to identify tens of thousands of households that needed money to buy food, as Nature reports in a News Feature this week . Typically, potential recipients of such payments would be identified when they apply for welfare schemes, or through household surveys of income and expenditure. But such surveys were not possible […]
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