See this To the Point podcast, Artificial Intelligence and your life in the future about how AI might turn out in the future and then a bit of reality for how it is already being used in China and the United States today.
You might be thinking that the use of AI in emergency management is far off. Not so fast Kemosabe, take the company One Concern for instance, who's total focus is maximizing the use of AI for emergency management purposes.
As drones fly, facial recognition becomes affordable, and our damage estimates become even more computerized--AI will be playing an ever bigger role in our profession.