Dawn Drescher

There are critical gaps in the accessibility and affordability of mental health services worldwide: In some countries, you have to wait for years for therapy, in others you get at max one session per month covered by the health insurance, in others therapies for particular conditions like cluster B personality disorders are virtually nonexistent.

We want to leverage LLMs to fill these gaps and complement regular therapy. Our product is in development. We've based it on Gemini and want it to interface with widely used messaging apps, so users can interact with it like they would with a friend or coach.

I’ve previously founded or worked for several charities and spent a few years in earning to give for work on invertebrate welfare and s-risks from AI.

You can get up to speed on my thinking at Impartial Priorities.

Posts

Beyond Control: The Strategic Case for AI Rights
by Dawn Drescher @ 2025-08-12 | +8 | 0 comments
How to Donate to Alleviate Suffering in Gaza
by Dawn Drescher @ 2025-08-10 | –18 | 0 comments
Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Tyranny: How Psychological Wounds Shape History
by Dawn Drescher @ 2025-08-10 | +8 | 0 comments
With the Future of the World in Your Hands, Think for 6.77 Years!
by Dawn Drescher @ 2025-08-09 | +30 | 0 comments
The GiveWiki’s Top Picks in AI Safety for the Giving Season of 2023
by Dawn Drescher @ 2023-12-07 | +26 | 0 comments
The Top AI Safety Bets for 2023: GiveWiki’s Latest Recommendations
by Dawn Drescher @ 2023-11-11 | +11 | 0 comments
Regrant up to $600,000 to AI safety projects with GiveWiki
by Dawn Drescher @ 2023-10-28 | +22 | 0 comments
AI Safety Impact Markets: Your Charity Evaluator for AI Safety
by Dawn Drescher @ 2023-10-01 | +28 | 0 comments
The Retroactive Funding Landscape: Innovations for Donors and Grantmakers
by Dawn Drescher @ 2023-09-29 | +17 | 0 comments
Play Regrantor: Move up to $250,000 to Your Top High-Impact Projects!
by Dawn Drescher, Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ @ 2023-05-17 | +58 | 0 comments
One form to help us build a crowdsourced charity evaluator
by Dawn Drescher @ 2023-05-08 | +9 | 0 comments
A Fresh FAQ on GiveWiki and Impact Markets Generally
by Dawn Drescher @ 2023-04-06 | +24 | 0 comments
Is it okay to ask someone to proofread a job application?
by Dawn Drescher @ 2023-04-01 | +9 | 0 comments
Chaining Retroactive Funders to Borrow Against Unlikely Utopias
by Dawn Drescher @ 2022-04-19 | +24 | 0 comments
Thoughts on the Transparent Newcomb’s Problem
by Dawn Drescher @ 2022-04-15 | +12 | 0 comments
Toward Impact Markets
by Dawn Drescher @ 2022-03-15 | +52 | 0 comments
Are there highly leveraged donation opportunities to prevent wars and...
by Dawn Drescher @ 2022-02-26 | +58 | 0 comments
How do you stay emotionally motivated while working on highly specific problems?
by Dawn Drescher @ 2021-05-02 | +18 | 0 comments
How to get up to speed on a new field of research?
by Dawn Drescher @ 2021-03-01 | +23 | 0 comments
How to work with self-consciousness?
by Dawn Drescher @ 2021-02-03 | +25 | 0 comments
How do you balance reading and thinking?
by Dawn Drescher @ 2021-01-17 | +28 | 0 comments
How do you approach hard problems?
by Dawn Drescher @ 2021-01-04 | +13 | 0 comments
How might better collective decision-making backfire?
by Dawn Drescher @ 2020-12-13 | +37 | 0 comments
Summary of Evidence, Decision, and Causality
by Dawn Drescher @ 2020-09-05 | +27 | 0 comments
Self-Similarity Experiment
by Dawn Drescher @ 2020-09-05 | +10 | 0 comments
Modelers and Indexers
by Dawn Drescher @ 2020-05-12 | +34 | 0 comments
Dawn Drescher's Quick takes
by Dawn Drescher @ 2020-04-23 | +6 | 0 comments
Current Thinking on Prioritization 2018
by Dawn Drescher @ 2018-03-13 | +13 | 0 comments
Cause Area: Human Rights in North Korea
by Dawn Drescher @ 2017-11-20 | +64 | 0 comments
The Attribution Moloch
by Dawn Drescher @ 2016-04-28 | +12 | 0 comments
Even More Reasons for Donor Coordination
by Dawn Drescher @ 2015-10-27 | +4 | 0 comments
The Redundancy of Quantity
by Dawn Drescher @ 2015-09-03 | +2 | 0 comments
My Cause Selection: Denis Drescher
by Dawn Drescher @ 2015-09-02 | +6 | 0 comments
Results of the Effective Altruism Outreach Survey
by Dawn Drescher @ 2015-07-26 | +3 | 0 comments
Dissociation for Altruists
by Dawn Drescher @ 2015-05-14 | +6 | 0 comments
Meetup : Effective Altruism Berlin Meetup #3
by Dawn Drescher @ 2015-05-10 | 0 | 0 comments
Incentivizing Charity Cooperation
by Dawn Drescher @ 2015-05-10 | +9 | 0 comments
Expected Utility Auctions
by Dawn Drescher @ 2015-05-02 | +4 | 0 comments
Telofy’s Effective Altruism 101
by Dawn Drescher @ 2015-03-29 | +3 | 0 comments
Meetup : EA Berlin #2
by Dawn Drescher @ 2015-03-26 | 0 | 0 comments
Common Misconceptions about Effective Altruism
by Dawn Drescher @ 2015-03-23 | +10 | 0 comments
Precise Altruism
by Dawn Drescher @ 2015-03-21 | +6 | 0 comments
Telofy’s Introduction to Effective Altruism
by Dawn Drescher @ 2015-01-21 | +7 | 0 comments