"I was talking to a fundraiser who said they used AI and they doubled their annual appeal revenues from $50K to $100K. Well, is your 50k in additional funds worth the $300K's worth of environmental and other forms of damage and trauma to communities?

Some important questions that nonprofits and charities (and all orgs, TBH) should ask themselves about their use of AI. I really appreciate the way Vu has captured all the difficult questions that many of us skip over when we use AI.

How we are harming marginalized communities.

How we are traumatizing people, especially women of color in poorer countries.

How we may be supporting fascism without realizing it

How we are contributing to the entrenchment of racism and white supremacy.

How we are destroying the livelihoods of artists

How we’re creating a more egotistical, sycophantic, narcissistic society

How we are enshittifying ourselves and our world.

How we may be perpetuating the injustice that we are trying to fight:

We need to have much more serious conversations about AI and the nonprofit/philanthropic sector, Vu Le