AI could help boost pandemic preparedness
A major new international study has outlined the potential for AI to improve our ability to prepare and react to future global pandemics.
Published in Nature, the research featured input from scientists across Africa, America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. It claims that within the next five years, AI systems could save lives by anticipating the location and trajectory of disease outbreaks.
According to the study, recent advances in AI have seen it performing increasingly well even with limited data. However, improvements in data quality could see even greater gains made in the coming years.
“In the next five years, AI has the potential to transform pandemic preparedness,” said lead author Professor Moritz Kraemer, from the University of Oxford’s Pandemic Sciences Institute.
“It will help us better anticipate where outbreaks will start and predict their trajectory, using terabytes of routinely collected climatic and socio-economic data. It might also help predict the impact of disease outbreaks on individual patients by studying the interactions between the immune system and emerging pathogens.
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