The global alliance will leverage AI and help world policy leaders to mitigate the pandemic.
An alliance called Collective and Augmented Intelligence Against COVID-19 (CAIAC) has been established by the Future Society and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), with the support of UNESCO along with the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.
The main aim of the global alliance is to provide the world policymakers with a platform to guide the decision-making related to COVID-19 pandemic with the help of artificial intelligence. The group plans to leverage data sets across health, social and economic data related to COVID-19.
Cyrus Hodes, Co-founder & Chair of the AI Initiative at The Future Society, said: “The pandemic has highlighted how vulnerable we are as a civilization. It has also accelerated innovation and global cooperation with the blossoming of thousands of bottom-up initiatives to find solutions. Fortunately, modern technologies such as AI can be used to harness vast amounts of disparate data and produce meaningful insights.”
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The alliance noted that the data is being created by research institutions, think-tanks, and NGOs with no trusted filter for their analyses. It intends to build a platform in collaboration with partners such as GLG, C3.ai, stability.ai, Element AI, Axis, and Planet to build AI into the platform. CAIAC will create a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that is focused on three main use cases –
- Tracking and tracing contagion chain using AI and mobility data
- Identifying inaccurate COVID-19 information
- finding areas most affected by recurrences of the coronavirus to deploy appropriate interventions
The CAIAC will be available online and will be shared with UN partners in September, followed by global governments. It will comprise of a series of knowledge graphs focused on the aforementioned use cases and will be open to access.
The alliance’s members will collaborate with partners from technical, scientific, and civil society to collect data on COVID-19 and identify critical domains where information on the global pandemic is needed most.
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The coronavirus crisis has generated an overwhelming amount of data. Every country has its own approach to fight the pandemic and is coming up with a range of initiatives to tackle the crisis.
Looking at the grave nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, stakeholders worldwide need to take immediate action. It is important for policymakers to take decisions in just days instead of mulling over them for months.
