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#77: AI Can Predict the Disaster, Not Fund the Response — Venezuela's Diaspora AI Tools, Mozambique's Drone Pilots, CHAI's Public Health Push
Impact Signals #77: AI Can Predict the Disaster, Not Fund the Response — Venezuela's Diaspora AI Tools, Mozambique's Drone Pilots, CHAI's Public Health Push Catherine Nakalembe, drawing on more than fifteen years building satellite models to predict drought and flood impact, argues this week that prediction was never the bottleneck: the UNFCCC's Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, the primary mechanism meant to pay for exactly this kind of prearranged response, has received less than 0.1% of the need. In Venezuela, that funding gap has already been answered from outside government: at…
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