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Impact Signals #69: UNHCR runs AI across five live humanitarian workflows at once, from displacement forecasting to refugee legal aid Today: UNHCR runs AI across five live humanitarian workflows at once, from displacement forecasting to refugee legal aid; Survey of 2,539 aid workers across 144 countries: 93% now use AI on the job, only 22% work under a formal AI policy; Money Management International opens an AI Lab and a 10-week "AI for Social Impact" fellowship with Anthropic, targeting people who never seek financial help. --- Top Stories **1. UNHCR runs AI across five live humanitarian workflows at once, from displacement forecasting to refugee legal aid** UNHCR published a summit-timed rundown (coinciding with the close of the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, July 7-10) of AI tools it is actually running in the field, not piloting on paper. That includes displacement-forecasting models in Somalia, agent-based modeling of return movements in Ukraine, pharmacy-stock prediction in Tanzania, fuel-management analytics in Burundi, and a legal-analysis tool that covers refugee law across more than 200 countries. The agency paired the announcement with an explicit list of the risks it's tracking: algorithmic bias, data gaps in low-connectivity settings, and deepfakes/misinformation increasingly targeting refugee populations. That combination, real multi-country deployment plus a public risk ledger, is the kind of transparency the sector has been asking for. **Why it matters…