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August 12, 2024: AI in Hazard Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness Workshop

AI in Hazard Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness August 12th Workshop Flier
Date & Time: Monday, August 12th from 9:00 AM- 3:00 PM
Location: Virginia Tech Research Center, 2nd Floor, 900 N. Glebe Rd. Arlington, VA

The PI-Tech Lab event on AI in Hazard Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness drew 30 emergency managers to the EBC at the VTRC in Arlington for a day long workshop on how to better use AI for emergency and crisis management, specifically hazard mitigation planning. The group worked through a participatory co-design process to develop a framework for new AI tools and operational and ethical guardrails and guidelines for using those tools. The group also offered feedback on a pilot custom GPT created by Virginia Tech called Hazard Helper, intended to provide feedback on hazard mitigation plans.

The workshop was funded by the Destination Areas 2.0 initiative (Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost) on Public Interest Technology to design ethical AI tools and deploy them responsibly.

Click here to view the AI in Hazard Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness Workshop Agenda.

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