Using Drones and AI to Find Illegal Dumping Sites: Interview with Brian Johnson Natural Reward Podcast

Illegal dumping is a widespread problem in cities throughout the world and differentially affects disadvantaged neighborhoods. Brian Johnson is a software engineer who moved to San Francisco nearly a decade ago. At the time, Brian could afford a house only in the least-expensive neighborhood, Bayview. Despite hopes for improvement, over time Bayview declined because of an illegal dumping problem. To protect his children, Brian started brainstorming ways to solve this problem. The ...