At AI Impact Labs, we are dedicated to helping nonprofits and mission-driven companies stay ahead of the curve by providing comprehensive support and training on using generative AI in their workflows.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Learn AI's role in addressing big challenges. Build skills combining human and machine intelligence for positive real-world impact using AI.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Online courses

The Al Accountability Fellowships seek to support journalists working on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments' and corporations’ uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

A global collection of AI projects and proposals that impacts UN Sustainable Development Goals, both positively and negatively.

• Sustainable Development Goals

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

AI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms. We hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investigations to uncover and expose the harms caused by their algorithms.

• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

The Social Network for E-Democracy

• Issue reporting
• Civic forums
• Social networks

An Airtable of 30 anti-corruption projects

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Research tools

In the database, we collect the best case studies we come across, to ensure that everyone in our global network can learn from and be inspired by these creative applications of AI in journalism

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

"Customers can now search for accommodations that include an EV charger in their stay. Airbnb made the search addition after years of EV drivers requesting the option."

• Airbnb
• civic features
• Climate action

• Civic features

An Airtable collection of general AI tools explaining how they can be used by local media

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

Air Alliance Houston is a non-profit advocacy organization working to reduce the public health impacts from air pollution and advance environmental justice.

• air quality

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Online consult for abortion pills by mail

• women's health
• Good health and well-being
• health

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Airbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.

• housing
• Airbnb
• civic features

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

This dashboard allows you to interact with first of its kind quantifiable data on China’s public diplomacy efforts from two of AidData’s reports Ties That Bind and Influencing the Narrative

• Civic maps

A collection of open data about development, China, the UN SDGs, and aid effectiveness.

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

For entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Courses

by AI Initiative

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

AidData has assembled a collection of replication datasets associated with scholarly research on aid allocation and aid effectiveness. Whenever possible, there is a link to the computer code that is necessary to replicate the results reported in a particular publication.

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

GovLab NYU's Collection of Lectures on the Ethical implications of Data and Artificial Intelligence from Different Perspectives

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Academia

A £100,000 prize fund to help bring Scotland’s innovative uses of AI for social good to life.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Analyzes satellite imagery to detect on the ground conflict and/or human rights violations using remote sensing and digital forensics.

• human rights

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

Driven by the rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, intelligent machines are gaining the ability to learn, improve and make calculated decisions in ways that will enable them to perform tasks previously thought to rely solely on human experience, creativity, and ingenuit​y

• Decade-Plus Club

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

A project by AlgorithmWatch that maps frameworks that seek to set out principles of how systems for automated decision-making (ADM) can be developed and implemented ethically

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.

• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Six European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.

• city
• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

We improve the effectiveness of international development efforts by understanding and encouraging what works using rigorous, actionable and engaging evidence.

• Decade-Plus Club

• The People
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Evaluate impact

AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• The People

With every genuine advance in the field of ‘artificial intelligence,’ we see a parallel increase in hype, myths, misconceptions and inaccuracies. These misunderstandings contribute to the opacity of AI systems, rendering them magical, inscrutable and inaccessible in the eyes of the public.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The AI Initiative is dedicated to shaping the global policy framework to govern the rise of Artificial Intelligence, addressing holistically short-, mid- and long-term governance challenges.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Providing real-time Air Quality Index & Allergy Pollen & Weather Data, as well as Protection Recommendations and Forecast.

• air quality
• apps
• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

An evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Aira connects people who are blind or low vision to a trained professional agent who is dedicated to further enhancing their everyday experience – completely hands-free assistance at the touch of a button.

• blind

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

This playbook is designed specifically for civil servants, offering practical guidance for using generative AI (GenAI) to help them perform their work more effectively and efficiently.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Generative AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Right-wing influencers are shilling an immigrant bounty hunting app

• immigration

• Blockchain
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Good Law Project is ready to help creatives fight back.

• culture
• Stop AI theft

• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Specific campaigns

Media publishers campaign against AI taking content without compensation

• Stop AI theft

• Artificial Intelligence
• Specific campaigns

Charity capacity-building trainings

• trainings

• Nonprofit tech

All positions below are part-time and unpaid unless noted otherwise.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Parody protest campaign

• Reduced inequalities
• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

ParticipationAI explores the intersection of public participation and Artificial Intelligence (AI),focusing on integrating diverse civil society perspectives into the public procurement process.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Procurement

ControlAI is a non-profit organisation that works to reduce the risks to humanity from artificial intelligence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Alignment

Global Voices has launched a special series on how the decimation of US aid funding is affecting Global Majority nations and marginalized communities.

• Project 2025

• Journalism
• Get funding

Soon Ranking Digital Rights will release the Generative AI Accountability Scorecard, evaluating major consumer-facing generative AI services’ respect for the human rights to privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, and freedom of information.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact

A 3-year project funded by the EU's Erasmus+ programme to mitigate the discriminatory impact of AI on people's lives.

• bias
• European Union
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)
• Design

The MENA Observatory on Responsible AI is an interdisciplinary platform connecting policy-oriented researchers and innovators, aimed at fostering collaboration and building capacity for responsible data and AI practices.

• development

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Policy

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks