Another Reason for Insurers to Embrace AI - Insurance Thought Leadership

AI alerts have played and continue to play a critical role in detecting and controlling future outbreaks like COVID-19. Did you know that artificial intelligence (AI) technology first sounded the alarm on COVID-19? An algorithm developed by BlueDot, a Canadian AI firm, scoured news reports and airline ticketing data to detect the outbreak on Dec. 31, 2019 in China. On the same day, HealthMap, a Boston Children's Hospital website using AI, spotted a news report of a new type of pneumonia in Wuhan, China, and alerted global health officials. HealthMap was also the first to notify Chinese health officials that COVID-19 was expanding outside of China.