Volume 18 Issue 3

Out now!

News and comment: Tackling incidents that fall below a crisis level; the good, bad and ugly of AI; book reviews of Modelling and managing complex risks and Building Resilient Futures

Artificial Intelligence: Our feature includes discussions on AI as both a tool and a possible threat. Will it become Frankenstein’s monster, asks Christine Jessup; We also explore the intersection of AI and data privacy, academia, crisis response and training, healthcare and public safety
 
Public safety: Jeannie Barr explores how the cost-of-living crisis has led to a rapid fall in the number of volunteers in the UK. The issue also explores AI-enabled drones and emergency planning, and how a security update led to false calls to emergency numbers globally
 
Leadership: Gen-AI and crisis managers; Martin Luther King’s disruptive authentic principles 

Hazards & risks: This issue includes a review of the UK National Risk Register 2023. Gianluca Pescaroli revisits the Emilia-Romagna Floods earlier this year. We also look at the role of early warning systems; and how climate-fuelled rains are wreaking havoc over South Asia 

Communication: Disaster response and communication; should you talk to the media in a crisis? Jim Preen and Charlie Maclean-Bristol debate. 

Data & disinformation: This section looks at AI from a data & disinformation perspective; AI as a means to counter digital disinformation; AI tools as a great opportunity to get more from our data and information; AI and national security; the role of AI in democratic processes; cross-border disinformation fuelled by AI in South Asia

Culture & continuity: Are business continuity and sustainability separate 'silos'? Lyndon Bird and Eric McNulty investigate; the edition also includes insights into Strengthening business DNA, developing effective corporate cultures; AI’s transformative power and organisational resilience

Plus: News, events and frontline

Articles

	Free to read: Coming in from the sky (182.3KB) 04/09/2023, There are 37 air ambulance helicopters operating across 21 individual air ambulance charities, which collectively dispatch over 102 lifesaving missions every day – that’s over 37,000 a year
	Free to read: AI in public safety: The future for emergency services? (247.0KB) 04/09/2023, Amy Leete examines whether upcoming developments in the artificial intelligence domain will make emergency response faster and more effective
	Free to read: The false call mystery (326.5KB) 03/09/2023, Earlier this year, emergency call centres experienced a strange and alarming issue. Globally, millions of calls to emergency numbers were made, but the callers were completely silent. Amy Leete investigates...