If we want to improve decision-making on the fire ground with AI, shouldn’t we understand how the human decision-making process works to begin with? And that is more complex than you might think.

Could Socrates – a well-known Greek philosopher who lived 2,400 years ago – teach us anything about better situational awareness during incidents?His motto was “Know thyself,” which is a great starting point. It was sometime in 2015 that a group of instructors from the Amsterdam-Amstelland Fire Department, including me, got together for the first meeting of the “Firefighting Development Group”. …