Dean Ball: The Next Pandemic Will Be Flooded With AI-Made Forecasting Dashboards
deanwball · x · 2026-10-06
AI policy researcher Dean Ball offers a sharp one-liner: whenever the next pandemic hits, it will feature an endless number of highly polished-seeming epidemiological dashboards and interactive forecasting models.
The implication: AI makes professional-looking forecasting tools ubiquitous, making it hard for the public and media to judge model quality — information noise will explode alongside the outbreak itself, raising questions about AI-generated content in crisis decision-making.
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