Giving Compass' Take:

• Beth Kanter discusses a range of problems and solutions presented by AI for the nonprofit sector. 

• How can funders rise to the challenge of harnessing emerging technology for social good? 

• Find out how we can unlock the potential of AI. 

HIV.Gov launches ChatBot: HIV.gov recently launched a pilot chatbot on Facebook Messenger  The bot is designed to share information from AIDS Society Conference taking place July 23 -July 27 in Amsterdam.

AI at Work Study: Future Workplace, partnered with Oracle to interview 1,320 U.S. HR leaders and employees to better understand how companies are adopting AI in the workplace. The study examined HR leader and employee perceptions of the benefits of AI, the obstacles preventing AI adoption and the business consequences of not embracing AI.

AI and Implicit Bias: CNN/Money reports that AI is hurting people of color and the poor. Researchers say that artificial intelligence, which could fundamentally change the world while contributing to greater racial bias and exclusion.

AI Can Be Sexist and Racist — It’s Time to Make It Fair: In this article in the Journal of Nature, the authors argue that we must identify sources of bias, de-bias training data and develop artificial-intelligence algorithms that are robust to skews in the data.

Read the full article about automation and nonprofits by Beth Kanter.