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Developing Responsible AI Policy For Civil Society

The NonProfit Times

By Shaista Keating and Chloe Mankin The rapid evolution and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) offer both opportunities and challenges to civil society, particularly concerning responsible and ethical usage. Foundational efforts in these areas are underway.

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5 Ways For Civil Society To Engage With AI

The NonProfit Times

Engaging with AI thoughtfully is part of what makes it better for the sector, and while there exist major factors around ethics, disclosure, and responsible use, AI presents the nonprofit sector with an opportunity to leverage powerful digital tools in service of enhancing the capacity to do good in the world.

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Healing Society through the Archaeology of Self™: A Racial Literacy Development Approach

NonProfit Quarterly

Imagine a civil society in which communities, individuals, and leaders (nonprofit, social movement, philanthropy, business, education, and more) regularly engage in the process of self-examination for the sake of improving our world. The six components are as follows: Figure 1: Racial Literacy Development Model. ©Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz.

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10 Ways Funders Can Address Generative AI Now

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most obviously, funders working in specific issue areas—climate, health, education, or in my case, democracy—can work to support efforts downstream to prepare government and civil society in their respective sectors to take advantage of the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI on their specific areas of concern.

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Maybe nonprofit governance aint what it needs to be?

Philanthropy 2173

I want to think about what it means - if anything - for civil society. First, it seems that no one in civil society or the U.S. The AI world - especially that which professes some commitment to "ethics", "safety," "responsibility" or "trustworthiness"* - is ripe with hybrids, not trusts.

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Media's past, civil society's future?

Philanthropy 2173

It's one of failing business models, new alternatives, a failure of professional ethics and practice to provide distinguishing value, an explosion of choices that consumers don't differentiate between, and a collapse of trust. It's not a pretty story. link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

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A Historical Model for AI Regulation and Collaboration

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Ethical and legal concerns around genetic sequencing were also addressed and mitigated through the creation of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program , which required five percent of the annual HGP budget to be allocated to address emerging ELSI.