One of the most fundamental roles of any government is ensuring the safety of its citizens, whether from others who would do them harm, from disasters like fire and floods or from injuries and sickness.
But with artificial intelligence rapidly advancing, what public safety jobs can look like is changing quickly, sometimes in a seriously sci-fi kind of way – picture a team of firefighters searching for survivors in a smoke-filled warehouse with up-to-the second information beamed directly onto their visors like in a first-person video game.
“I could see firefighters going through a building, having some type of visual display, being able to understand based on pre-planned information about where certain hazardous materials are stored in a facility, or seeing real-time temperature information in a fire that would help make them respond better,” said John Chiaramonte, president of consulting services at Mission Critical Partners, a Pennsylvania-based consulting firm, during a recent joint meeting of the Georgia House and Senate committees on artificial intelligence.
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