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The AI headlines this month have been dominated by two launches. Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on 16 April. OpenAI released GPT5.5 on 23 April, calling it "a new class of intelligence for real...
Three weeks ago I wrote here about the three principles we teach at AidGPT: treat AI like a 21-year-old intern, use its mind not its memory, and remember that specificity is safety. That piece landed...
Over the past month, I've written about the structural shifts reshaping humanitarian funding the $2 billion OCHA deal with its political conditions, the withdra
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In Sudan, AIgenerated audio, video, and images are being weaponised by both sides of the conflict. A September 2025 CDAC Network report found
Executive Summary Humanitarian and development staff are already using tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot to survive unrealistic workloads – often late at n
AI in Social Protection: Insights from SP.org Podcast Ep. 46 on Opportunities, Risks, and the Road Ahead Thomas Byrnes Thomas Byrnes Humanitarian & Digital Social Protection Expert | Director of Marke...
Reflecting on AI in 2024 & Looking Ahead to 2025 Thomas Byrnes Thomas Byrnes Humanitarian & Digital Social Protection Expert | Director of MarketImpact January 1, 2025 Happy New Year from 2025! As we...
AI in Anticipatory Action: NOAA's Heat Mapping enabling Adaptive Social Protection Thomas Byrnes Thomas Byrnes Humanitarian & Digital Social Protection Expert | Director of MarketImpact November 29, ...
The Ethics of AI Identity Matching in Humanitarian Aid: When Perfect Consent Meets Impossible Choices Thomas Byrnes Thomas Byrnes Humanitarian & Digital Social Protection Expert | Director of MarketIm...
Why We Need AI in Humanitarian Aid: Efficiency in Crisis Response Thomas Byrnes Thomas Byrnes Humanitarian & Digital Social Protection Expert | Director of MarketImpact November 11, 2024 Last week at...
Sustainability Challenges in Humanitarian AI: From Theory to Practice Thomas Byrnes Thomas Byrnes Humanitarian & Digital Social Protection Expert | Director of MarketImpact November 5, 2024 At a rece...
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