AI for Good Meetup

Join us for our very first AI for Social Good Meetup! 🎉

How can AI evolve from a mere "world-saving" buzzword to a practical tool that drives social impact? As this technology rapidly advances, there's a significant gap in grasping the social, environmental, ethical, and governance implications of deploying artificial intelligence tools on a large scale. Collaboration to tackle implementation challenges is essential to ensure AI benefits the broadest audience possible.

We're already witnessing the incredible potential of AI:

• Detecting early signs of diseases in underserved communities that lack access to specialists 🏥
• Aiding climate scientists in real-time deforestation tracking 🌳
• Helping small nonprofits automate grant research, allowing teams to focus on what truly matters 💡

Yet, achieving responsible, equitable, and effective outcomes isn’t straightforward.

In this meetup, we aim to democratize AI fluency within the social impact community. Angela and Paulina will begin the event with insightful examples of responsible AI in action. We encourage you to share your real questions, challenges, and blockers around AI adoption as we navigate solutions together. 🙌

This space is crafted for nonprofits and social entrepreneurs to pose any lingering AI questions, learn collaboratively, and depart with a clearer roadmap for taking the next steps.

What does our community need and want when it comes to AI for social good? Let's discover together!

Please RSVP here.

Anew serves as a gathering space and discovery center for the social impact community.

Meet Our Speakers:

• Angela Ng: Director of Business Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University, with a wealth of experience in sustainability, AI, and innovation programs. She has dedicated nearly five years to these initiatives across CMU's global campuses and brings a solid international development background, focusing on responsible AI adoption for addressing climate action, health innovation, education, and economic mobility.

• Paulina Muñoz: Author of Do Good Capital, she blends her expertise from international policy, investment banking, venture capital, and impact investing. Paulina now consults at Kind Capital, leading efforts to connect capital with communities and companies in need.

Together, Angela and Paulina orchestrate AI for Good NYC, uniting AI engineers, founders, funders, nonprofits, and social entrepreneurs in addressing the world's most pressing challenges responsibly. Let's come together for a transformative conversation! 🌟