Paper by Vera Lummis, Angela Aristidou and Rob Reich: “Frontier AI labs and nonprofit organizations are increasingly partnering to deploy frontier AI in support of nonprofits’ missions to improve global health, climate, humanitarian, and development outcomes. Individual and institutional funders have invested hundreds of millions of dollars to support nonprofits in deploying AI for good, occasionally in formal partnership with AI labs. However, the rapidly growing AI for Social Good (AI4SG) ecosystem lacks a clear understanding of what these partnerships provide, how they form, and what drives or compromises their success.
Drawing on interviews with 36 individuals across 24 organizations (frontier AI labs, nonprofits, philanthropic funders, and independent experts) and four in-depth case studies, this report offers insights into how nonprofits and frontier AI labs partner to deploy AI to produce social impact and provides recommendations for how partnership and funding arrangements can be structured for success…(More)”.
