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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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Choosing AI’s Impact on the Future of Work

Stanford Social Innovation Review

With better context-specific information, these workers could become more productive in the tasks they are performing and venture into new, more complex tasks. Companies must recognize that, in reality, labor is a critical resource for productivity growth. Alas, this more hopeful path is not where we are heading.

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Reading List: Bridging Divides to Create Social Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review ’s 2022 Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) will focus on opportunities to bridge the divides that exist in society. The conference will explore the role of civil society organizations in finding common ground, ways to facilitate collaboration, combatting disinformation, and other topics.

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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, think of a nurse manager or a teacher who no longer needs to devote 40% of their time to jockeying a schedule or designing slides and worksheets. This means that many administrative and analytical tasks like note-taking, scheduling, data reconciliation, and summarization will be reduced dramatically.

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Small Organizations: The Change That Systems Change Needs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Together, they address barriers to safe and healthy diets through capacity building, strategic collaborations, and advocacy for increased resources, improved policies, and better government accountability. Across Africa, Guzakuza connects and supports women facing food system challenges.

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Betting on Migration for Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Even the US and UK have shown that immigration politics can be separated from workforce development, and seek to expand programs for well-managed migration to address labor needs in some key sectors. Meanwhile, countries on the “sending” side are positioning themselves to seek greater access to foreign labor markets.

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In retrospect, we can see with a borderless threat like COVID-19, collaboration was stymied across and within countries: Lacking clearly defined and owned targets, country responses often failed to meaningfully engage civil society. We must do better, or humanity will be vulnerable to future pandemics and other borderless threats.