How artificial intelligence can help unlock human generosity

Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, 2020

DOI: 10.4324/9781003145936-118

We are very early in the creation of an AI [Artificial Intelligence] for Giving field (AI4Giving) that offers the potential to inform and activate new and existing donors to give more or to give to more causes. The question is whether the interests of the technology providers and the philanthropic community will align as the technology becomes more ubiquitous. Or, as we’ve seen with social media, whether the commercial interests of the technology platforms will sublimate the philanthropic interests of users.

We are at a tipping point for sector-wide adoption of AI systems and practices. The philanthropic and nonprofit ...

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