AI is Creating a New Breed of 10x Changemakers

Impact, Education and Beyond

May 16, 2024

Modify an image of a nonprofit worker in a community garden setting, with multiple arms performing various tasks. The person should have at least eight arms. Replace all tasks involving gardening with the person holding different smartphones. One arm is holding a smartphone to the ear, another is texting on a phone, a third is checking emails on another phone, a fourth is talking to a group of volunteers, a fifth is writing in a notebook, a sixth is designing flyers on a laptop, a seventh is filming a promotional video with a camera, and the eighth is holding another smartphone checking social media. The background should mix a vibrant community garden with an outdoor office space, emphasizing the multitasking nature of nonprofit work.

AI enables changemakers to move fast and fix things. It frees up their time from operational hassles so they can 100% focus on their mission. For instance Grant Orb, an AI grant writer that writes grants in minutes, helps unlock funding without having to spend 30+ hours on grant writing. Also one does not need to be proficient in grant writing or english, democratizing access to funds.

With tools like Grant Orb, changemakers can reclaim their time to focus on real work.

We’re entering an era of 10x changemakers. AI gives people on a mission superpowers to do more and accelerate impact by 100x. Something we’ve never seen before.

AI + Impact

As I’m going deep into the AI space, building Grant Orb, I’m learning a lot about this fascinating new technology, Large Language Models (LLMs). I see big potential in how LLMs (commonly referred as Generative AI) can be applied to solve huge societal problems. AI is going to be revolutionary for people at the base of the pyramid. Access to healthcare, education, agricultural knowledge and expertise will get radically accelerated with AI available on the phones and designed for them. AI can help fix cancer, climate, discover new material and medicines, the potential is massive, we just need changemakers to start applying AI in everything they do.

I recently gave a talk to Techsoup Nonprofits on how changemakers can leverage AI to accelerate impact. A great watch if you’d like to understand Generative AI and it’s implications for the social impact space.

AI + Education

Salman Khan, Founder of Khan Academy published a new book on how AI changes education. In short, AI gives every child a personal tutor and every teacher a personal assistant. All one needs is access to this transformative technology. On that note, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (ChatGPT) recently shared on a podcast the concept of Universal Basic Compute (similar to Universal Basic Income) which means that every person should get access to super intelligence.

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