2019-08-11
The insurance industry uses cat models to make realistic estimates of how damaging a whole suite of natural perils will be - hurricanes, floods, wildfires, earthquakes, and so forth. Thousands of years of hypothetical events, and huge catalogs of historical “as-if” scenarios 3/n
New York Times
Interviews and documents show that One Concern, which wants to use AI to help emergency responders in disasters, dangerously exaggerated its tools' abilities
Sheri Fink / New York Times : Tweets: @random_walker , @nytimes , @jimmyjwu , @robreich , @jswatz , @kellyhereid , @kellyhereid , and @kellyhereid Tweets: Arvind Narayanan / @rand...
So to wade in... What One Concern has built is a catastrophe model. We can quibble about how it's done it, whether it uses public data/AI/magical fairy dust/whatever, but that's what it is - a model that predicts damage from a disaster 2/n
New York Times
Interviews and documents show that One Concern, which wants to use AI to help emergency responders in disasters, dangerously exaggerated its tools' abilities
Sheri Fink / New York Times : Tweets: @random_walker , @nytimes , @jimmyjwu , @robreich , @jswatz , @kellyhereid , @kellyhereid , and @kellyhereid Tweets: Arvind Narayanan / @rand...
So, I imagine @oneconcerninc is currently formulating a response to this @nytimes piece, but here are some personal thoughts, from yours truly, sitting in a space that intersects with its field fairly closely. https://www.nytimes.com/... 1/n
New York Times
Interviews and documents show that One Concern, which wants to use AI to help emergency responders in disasters, dangerously exaggerated its tools' abilities
Sheri Fink / New York Times : Tweets: @random_walker , @nytimes , @jimmyjwu , @robreich , @jswatz , @kellyhereid , @kellyhereid , and @kellyhereid Tweets: Arvind Narayanan / @rand...