AI to Battle Pandemics

We also encourage national governments to agree on a protocol for determining when data could be shared. For example, a declaration by the WHO or UN that a particular outbreak qualified as a pandemic could serve as a trigger to suspend normal privacy laws to allow the sharing of anonymized data. During such times, many people might be willing to exceptionally and temporarily provide their data, through appropriate and secure channels, for training models that can guide policy decisions with major life and economic consequences. If that happens, there is a great deal that modern data science and AI could do to mitigate the fallout from this pandemic and to prepare us for limiting the impact of the next.
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