Leveraging AI to Battle This Pandemic — and the Next One

In the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, governments have not leveraged the advances in machine learning and AI, specifically the technology of personalized prediction, that have been such a feature of the private sector. Doing so would make management of a future pandemic far more effective, and even could help make the process of coming out of Covid-19-related social confinement safer and less expensive. To enable this to happen governments need to revisit their current approaches to data privacy.