AI helps organization send poorest households impacted by Helene and Milton $1,000

AI helps organization send poorest households impacted by Helene and Milton $1,000

AI is helping a philanthropic organization give $1,000 cash payments to Hurricanes Helene and Milton victims in North Carolina and Florida who need it most.

About 1,000 households in areas hit hardest by the hurricanes will start receiving emergency payments from nonprofit GiveDirectly this week. Unlike other forms of assistance, the cash funds are transferred rapidly and doled out with no strings attached.

GiveDirectly said it started sending payments to households it identified as being both low-income and located in parts of the U.S. that were devastated by the storms . It does so using a Google-developed AI tool to identify […]