By Laurie Clarke
Publication Date: 2026-04-23 09:03:00
They have also experimented with AI participating in conflict simulations alongside human experts and bots taking turns playing heads of state. Right now, “you lose some of the nuance and complexity that you might have at the human level,” Chausovsky says. Interestingly, the AI also tends to be more conservative than human players and, for example, avoids escalating measures.
The United Nations Development Program is already using AI to assess the impact of major disasters and events. After the Herat earthquake in Afghanistan in 2023, the company used its AI-powered Rapid Digital Assessment tool to estimate how much damage and debris might be in a given location, allowing it to carry out rescue operations more accurately.
The United Nations is also investing in AI early warning as part of what it calls “proactive crisis management.” It combines historical and near real-time data into a crisis risk dashboard to identify potential hotspots of violence before anything happens…
