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Encouraging Human Creativity in the AI-Powered Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Thats why, in public policy circles, we must nurture and reward innovation in as well as from AI. As has been the case with technological progress generally since the founding of the United States, that means protecting all aspects of creative human work now manifesting itself through AI.

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Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Despite these risk disparities, there is a significant underrepresentation of individuals from these communities in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—fields that design and use tools to understand, predict, and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

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Building Boundaries in Love for Equity and Justice: An AI Manifesto

NonProfit Quarterly

When we build AI, we must ask: Who benefits from this technology? It calls for AI that is designed explicitly to dismantle systemic inequities and address the social ills caused by historical and present-day injustices. For those impacted by AIcommunities, workers, everyday peoplesuch policies serve as essential protective barriers.

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Nothing About Us Without Us: Invest in Disabled Leaders to Advance Equitable Technology for Everyone

NonProfit Quarterly

People with disabilities are leading policy change, technology development, and workplace evolution. The newly launched Disability x Tech Fund , which focuses on technology justice, offers a framework for how we can collectively resource these leaders. But space needs to be made. Hands need to reach out.

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The AI-Powered Nonprofits Coding a Greener Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Fast Forward’s research of how APNs are using AI to fight climate change found a vast range of use cases, including decarbonizing supply chains, tracking pollution, predicting disasters, optimizing sustainable farming practices, protecting biodiversity, and equipping policy makers with better data.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

Not only has AI forever altered the technological landscape, but it also carries monumental and potentially corrosive impacts on the economic, political, and interpersonal terrain that makes up our everyday lives. Among the most recent and rapid developments of AI is facial recognition technology.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Technology Goes Mainstream. Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 During the decades of the 1980s and 1990s that technology began to integrate into people’s lives. The public demands it, and because of it, governments are responding. . billion users, was only founded in 2004.