Adopting AI Enhances Humanitarian Operations While Demanding Critical Trade-Offs
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly impacting the cooperation sector, transforming how humanitarians are operating in the field. AI tools now allow for improved health diagnostics and quality services. In conflict areas, organizations are able to improve the efficiency of their analysis, and propose optimized data management processes for more multifactorial predictions. In a context where human and financial resources are limited, AI address the gaps to sustain emergency responses. In this commentary,…
Adopting AI tools in humanitarian operations was reported to improve health diagnostics, service quality, and analytical efficiency for multifactorial predictions in resource-limited and conflict settings.
Adoption of AI in fragile humanitarian environments creates substantial risk of security breaches from human errors and unregulated data management, and risks reinforcing existing power imbalances for workers and communities.
Commentary format without primary empirical data; authors note need for safeguards and local ownership and that trade-offs and ethical concerns remain under exploration.
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- Peer-reviewedAvicenna Journal of Medicine2026-04-01
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