Research on Failed Emergency Responses - Killian Harte

What issues have effected previous natural disaster responses, and how they might effect our idea.

https://www.adjustersinternational.com/resources/news-and-events/why-many-disaster-plans-fail-and-what-you-can-do-to-avoid-it/

https://www.adjustersinternational.com/resources/news-and-events/why-many-disaster-plans-fail-and-what-you-can-do-to-avoid-it/

  • Not practising results in problems only being found during the emergency.
  • Poor communication to people ranging from CEOs to children, leading to poor understanding of what they must do.
  • Too little information means important details are missing. Too much information means important details are clumped together and difficult to find.
  • Following disaster measures designed for vague scenarios rather than your specific location can cause issues when those specifics become relevant.

https://hscif.org/are-the-experts-responsible-for-bad-disaster-response/

  • People have ignored natural disaster experts and emergencies due to mistrust. Experts have made mistakes with under developed tech or over-confidence, as well as conspiracies. Case in point, Italy’s “Power dictates, ‘science’ obeys, justice absolves” rally.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/guneyyildiz/2023/02/21/three-things-that-went-wrong-in-turkeys-earthquake-response/

  • In Turkey, the organisation capable of responding the best to earthquakes is the military (should our A.I. have to communicate with militaries as well?).
  • The military were not given a significant role for Turkey’s emergency response, meaning they were too late to respond to an earthquake in February 2023.
  • Poor coordination and allocation of roles also contributed to a messy response (our A.I. is being planned to predict and call attention to disasters, not organise an emergency response).
  • One major effect to the response was the government’s insistence on suppressing information rather than utilising it (do we want to account for political interference for our A.I.?)

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