AI Emergency Alerts Are Coming. Humans Might Not Be Ready

AI Emergency Alerts Are Coming. Chatbots can help--if people take them seriously. This story was Grist WIRED. Earlier this month, after Hurricane Isaias made landfall on the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 hurricane, the emergency management expert Laura Myers got a call from a meteorologist in Alabama. Myers is director of the University of Alabama's Center for Advanced Public Safety, and she talks to state and local emergency managers around her region all the time. The meteorologist told Myers that a local emergency manager had published a graphic showing where Isaias might threaten the Alabama coast with a "sting jet" of high winds.