Christian Reuter, Deputy Coordinator at emergenCITY and head of PEASEC, has contributed to a new European report on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in emergency and crisis management. The EU Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM) submitted the report to the European Commission on December 11, 2025. The paper was written by a group of experts from the Scientific Advice for Policy by European Academies (SAPEA) consortium, which includes emergenCITY advisory board member Tina Comes, and includes recommendations how AI could support the emergency and crisis management across Europe.

The report identifies potential for AI especially in data-intensive routine tasks—such as monitoring early warning systems, evaluating data from social media, or quickly assessing damage in recurring disasters such as floods, forest fires, or droughts. At the same time, it emphasizes the limitations of AI in novel situations and argues that ethically challenging decisions must remain the responsibility of humans. Recommendations include clear standards for the security, transparency, and ethics of the AI tools used, the development of benchmarks and sandbox environments prior to deployment, and the establishment of a European framework for data preparation in crisis management.

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To the Report “Artificial Intelligence in Emergency and Crisis Management”

About the Scientific Adive Mechanism (SAM)