AI for public health doesn't receive as much attention as other AI stories. Virginia's Substance Use Disorder Analytics (SUDA) platform is an AI-enhanced public health tool worth mentioning. When an overdose uptick starts developing in a community, the data to reveal it most

This week's issue of Smarter Society AI has just been published. This week's focus: Early Warning Systems. This one's about data that was already being collected for one purpose, but turned out to hold insights for other purposes. A Harvard team trained AI on years of hospital

Pilot programs in local government can stall before they produce anything worth reporting. San Jose is a useful counter example. The city has been running two AI pilots since 2023. The first puts AI cameras on city vehicles that already drive nearly every street, flagging

We constantly hear about generative AI and the latest model releases. What we rarely hear about is how AI is being used for something like this: helping and finding family members for children entering foster care. A caseworker trying to place a child with relatives often starts

"Pajama time." Sounds cozy, and it's not a phrase you would typically connect with AI. Unfortunately, for doctors it's anything but cozy. "Pajama time" is what doctors call the documentation they need to finish at home after a full clinical day. And here's why AI can help fix

If your primary AI tool is down, is that the adult equivalent of having a snow day?

Road safety is one of those areas where AI's practical value is straightforward but underreported. Projects in these three cities are worth knowing about. Austin is using computer vision at intersections to analyze near-misses and recommend inexpensive fixes like reflective tape

The conversation about AI and public safety often focuses on surveillance and risk assessment. However, there's a lot more happening that doesn't fit this narrative. The University of Kentucky built Virtual Reality training that places officers in tense encounters where a

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If Anthropic's Project Glasswing is relying on the most powerful AI model in the galaxy to help secure critical software, it's only fitting the Project have a mascot. He is the truth you didn't want to see. He is the glitch that breaks your firewall of fear. He is...GLASSWING