Google and Rockefeller Helped Fund the Stanford AI Recommending Which U.S. Communities Receive Refugees

Stanford’s GeoMatch system uses data to recommend refugee placement locations, while human officers retain final authority (Credit: DΛVΞ GΛRCIΛ/Pexels)

Google.org and the Rockefeller Foundation helped fund GeoMatch, an AI-assisted placement tool developed by Stanford University's Immigration Policy Lab in collaboration with ETH Zurich. The system analyses past resettlement data to recommend locations where refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants may have stronger predicted integration outcomes.

GeoMatch does not make binding placement decisions. The lab says placement officers and resettlement workers can accept, modify or disregard its recommendations, retaining final authority over where individuals and families are placed.