White House science office pursues potential AI role in fighting wildfires

The Office of Science and Technology Policy is seeking public feedback as it crafts a “technology roadmap” to help combat wildfires inflicting billions of dollars in damages across the country, posing specific questions to stakeholders on commercializing and scaling related artificial intelligence tools.

“The technology roadmap is intended to increase wildfire firefighting capabilities at the Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial levels, including through enhanced integration or application of artificial intelligence, data sharing, innovative modeling and mapping capabilities, and technology...