Exploring How Philanthropy Could Use AI and How AI Could Use Philanthropy | CSI Insights Ep. 9

The surge in the popularity and utility of artificial intelligence (AI) presents several opportunities for the philanthropic sector - both in leveraging the technology to improve ways of working, as well as playing a key role in supporting the safe development of AI.

Chris Malone, Partner at Dalberg, speaks about how philanthropy can use AI by sharing eight areas where philanthropists might use AI to transform their work, and conversely, how AI can use philanthropy by encouraging funding to go into AI research.

Key Moments:

• 2:00 - Setting the bookends: risks and opportunities in AI
• 12:30 - 8 Areas where philanthropy might engage with AI
• 20:00 - Working with grantee organizations - how could grantee organizations benefit from AI?
• 24:40 - Philanthropies as centers of excellence
• 26:50 - How AI could use philanthropy
• 34:40 - Existential risk in AI and why we need all kinds of philanthropists funding research into all kinds of risks and possibilities in AI
• 39:10 - How corporates could think about corporate social impact as a sandbox for innovation, such as in AI. 
• 43:45 - Recommended reading from Chris: AI 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee an Chen Qiufan

The Corporate Social Impact Insights series of the Money Meets Mission podcast is part of the AVPN Academy Corporate Social Impact Centre,  which was established in partnership with Johnson & Johnson, Miller Trust and Visa. The center also includes self-paced modules, a library of content, and Learning Circles, which are a monthly series of small group discussions for corporate practitioners. To learn more, visit the AVPN Academy Corporate Social Impact Centre.