Best of: Arms Race for Data

AI is transforming the world and will have profound implications for humanitarian action. But how? Will it lend itself to authoritarian regimes controlling their populations and will humanitarian organisations be complicit in this and create additional vulnerabilities for the populations we serve? Will be help us create a better user experience for "consumers" of humanitarian aid and will it help us ensure that we get spare parts for the generator just in time?

Listen in as Sarah Spencer from humanitarianai.org and Lars Peter Nissen discuss these and many more questions.

The episode was originally released in March 2021 and Sarah has since then written the HPN Network Paper Humanitarian AI: the hype, the hope and the future where she writes about the issues discussed in the episode. You can download the episode here: https://odihpn.org/resources/humanitarian-artificial-intelligence-the-hype-the-hope-and-the-future/