Practical AI for social impact
Understand what you can do with AI today, and how it can support stronger impact over time.
Many organisations working in social impact have now started experimenting with AI.
Teams are testing prompts, exploring tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude and Gemini, and asking practical questions about how AI might help them work faster or get unstuck.
What is often less clear is where this kind of self-service experimentation should end, and where more structured approaches begin.
In this Social Impact Summit Quarterly, we explored how AI can be used today to support impact strategy, measurement and storytelling, while maintaining rigour, judgement and human insight.
We were pleased to be joined by Sam Calabrese, Director of Communications and Campaigns at Minderoo Foundation, who shared insights from recent national research into Australians’ attitudes towards AI.Â
Together, we examined how people are feeling about AI today, what is driving trust and distrust, and what this means for organisations working in human-centred, high-stakes environments..
From there, we walked through a number of practical applications, including:
- How individuals and teams can use existing AI tools to start or strengthen impact work
- Ways AI can support research, stakeholder input and early analysis, helping teams move faster without lowering quality
- What becomes possible when AI is designed into impact processes from the outset, rather than used as an add-on
If you are already experimenting with AI and want clearer direction, or are looking for ways to accelerate your impact work, you can now watch the full session above then contact our team to learn more.