Google Earth AI prototype reportedly helped pinpoint 48 exposed settlements during DRC Ebola outbreak

Google says its WHOAFRO partners used a prototype Geospatial Reasoning agent during an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The team mapped areas with high exposure risk and human mobility, pinpointing 48 exposed settlements and locating more than 45,500 at-risk people in minutes—a process Google says normally takes weeks. Google says the system combines environmental data and population patterns to help forecast disease spread.