‘God’s view’: The rise of AI war dashboards

Tokyo: The AI dashboard shows frigates gathered around Cyprus and military planes flying towards the Gulf, where a breaking news pin alerts users to unconfirmed reports of a drone strike on Dubai.

At that precise moment on Friday, more than 3,200 people had their eyes glued to “Monitor the Situation”, which tracks everything from world leaders’ locations to internet outages.

It’s one of several free sites using artificial intelligence to crunch data into interactive world maps that are info-rich but not always reliable.