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#169: US Emergency Managers Draft Disaster Alerts With Chatbots, NOAA Funds $1.2M Pacific Cell Broadcast Rollout, Half of US School Districts Report a Cyber Incident
Impact Signals #169: US Emergency Managers Draft Disaster Alerts With Chatbots, NOAA Funds $1.2M Pacific Cell Broadcast Rollout, Half of US School Districts Report a Cyber Incident Grist and WIRED report that emergency management offices across the United States are drafting public disaster warnings with ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude on personal and free accounts, mostly without agency approval, and an Alabama county has already produced a chatbot hurricane graphic that a meteorologist judged not meteorologically accurate. The same morning, the GSMA confirmed a US$1.2 million NOAA subaward to…
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