To fight the coronavirus spread, give artificial intelligence a chance

This pandemic is the biggest "black swan" event we have witnessed in our lives so far. A black swan event is characterized by a very low probability but extremely high impact. The last one was 9/11 in the US, which some still saw coming. But Covid-19 has taken us all by surprise. Cases and deaths have had a geometric rise, which defeats understanding, because our minds tend to think in terms of linear progression.