Is AI making charities more productive?

By defun 🔸 @ 2026-09-06T13:32 (+7)

I've read about GiveDirectly's ML targeting (Bangladesh results) and GiveWell's AI red-teaming and lit reviews. What about other charities?

Is AI actually saving significant admin/research/ops time anywhere, or is it mostly shallow adoption?

Laura Thomas-Walters @ 2026-09-07T11:24 (+6)

I lead the Impact team at ProVeg International, and it's definitely unlocked our capabilities! E.g., one of our country office's recently developed a 3 year plan, and asked if we could forecast their impact in terms of GHG emissions. I reckon using Claude saved us close to a week in building the model.