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Why data is one of the biggest challenges to leveraging AI for social good—and how the social sector can address it
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Building Community-Centered AI Collaborations
Mission-driven organizations should look beyond the tech sector and build AI partnerships with academia, CBOs, artists, and foundations.
Encouraging Human Creativity in the AI-Powered Future
Strong IP protections will incentivize the human creativity that’s essential to improving, applying, and using AI.
The Stories We Tell About AI
Narratives are an essential prerequisite to social change. Current narratives on AI and work only serve to increase tech companies’ power and undermine workers’ rights.
To Bot or Not to Bot? How AI Companions Are Reshaping Human Services and Connection
The rise of AI-powered social services will mean walking a difficult tightrope between democratizing access to resources and depleting access to social connection.
Deep Listening for Impact Measurement
How AI-driven text and voice analysis can transform impact investing strategies.
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2024
Healing trauma in systems; a critique of strategic philanthropy; nonprofit growth revisited; AI-powered nonprofits; communication in a new era; and more.
Knowledge Is Human
Why building a trusted information ecosystem requires building a community.
Cool Carts
Cooling innovation helps food hawkers who cannot afford conventional refrigeration.
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Server Farm
We must turn to the nonhuman intelligence all around us to articulate a framework for ethical and regenerative life.