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Can AI detect wildfires more quickly? Colorado hopes to find out.

Bill would create a $2 million pilot program to use cameras and artificial intelligence to help detect early signs of a wildfire.

(David Zalubowski | AP) Homes burn as a wildfire rips through a development near Rock Creek Village, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021, near Broomfield, Colo. Just over a year after the most destructive wildfire burned in Colorado's history, a bill is being introduced in the state's legislature to create a $2-million pilot program to use cameras likely equipped with artificial intelligence technology in high-risk areas to help identify fires before they can burn out of control.

(David Zalubowski | AP) Homes burn as a wildfire rips through a development near Rock Creek Village, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021, near Broomfield, Colo. Just over a year after the most destructive wildfire burned in Colorado's history, a bill is being introduced in the state's legislature to create a $2-million pilot program to use cameras likely equipped with artificial intelligence technology in high-risk areas to help identify fires before they can burn out of control.