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How humanitarian organizations are using AI to reach people faster

Fast Company Tech Adele Peters August 7, 2026
How humanitarian organizations are using AI to reach people faster
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# AI Is Helping Charities Get Aid to Disaster Victims Faster When earthquakes hit Venezuela, GiveDirectly used AI to spot the hardest-hit neighborhoods from satellite images, then verified the results with on-the-ground teams before sending cash directly to people's phones within weeks—a process that would normally take much longer. Other nonprofits like Mercy Corps are using AI to handle repetitive report-writing tasks so their human analysts can focus on making decisions about where help is needed most. The key is that organizations aren't letting AI make the final calls alone; they're using it to speed up the grunt work while keeping humans in charge of the decisions that matter.

Minutes after catastrophic earthquakes struck Venezuela in June, GiveDirectly got an AI-generated snapshot of the disaster from an internal tool. Then it used other AI tools that analyze satellite imagery to pinpoint the hardest-hit neighborhoods, paired that with poverty data, and posted flyers in

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