EMN Media Podcast | Featuring Jeremy Greenberg
Artificial intelligence is changing how we prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. But with all the excitement surrounding AI, one important question remains: Are we solving real emergency management problems, or are we simply chasing the latest technology?
In this episode of EMN Media, host Todd T. DeVoe, CEM, sits down with Jeremy Greenberg, President of Provincial Strategies, Senior Advisor to Aspen Digital, and former FEMA Director of Response Operations and Chief of the National Response Coordination Center, to explore AI's evolving role in emergency management.
The conversation centers on the AI for Disasters and Emergencies (AIDE) Initiative, a collaborative effort involving the Markle Foundation, Aspen Digital, and RAND that examined approximately 1,800 technologies to better understand how AI can support disaster operations.
Todd and Jeremy discuss the opportunities and challenges of bringing AI into emergency management, from improving situational awareness and processing large amounts of information to overcoming organizational barriers and ensuring technology serves the people making critical decisions.
They also explore the growing demands placed on emergency managers as disasters become more complex and technology advances at an unprecedented pace.
But one message stands above the rest: AI may help us make faster, better-informed decisions, but it cannot replace an emergency manager's experience, judgment, and leadership.
This episode goes beyond the hype to examine what AI can realistically deliver, where its limitations remain, and how emergency management professionals can prepare for a future in which technology and human judgment must work together.
Because at the end of the day, technology is a tool. People make the difference.
Links
AIDE Website:
https://www.aideinitiative.org/
AIDE Playbook: https://www.aideinitiative.org/playbook/
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