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Awesome AI Tools & Opps, AI for Impact Newsletter, Dec. 26, 2024

Awesome AI Tools & Opps, AI for Impact Newsletter, Dec. 26, 2024

December 26, 2024

📢 Welcome to a Special Second Edition of AI for Impact Weekly!

Hi Changemakers

This week, we’re thrilled to share a bonus edition of the newsletter! With so many new subscribers (welcome!) and a packed lineup of tools, insights, and opportunities, we couldn’t wait until next week to deliver this to you.

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Every edition of AI for Impact Weekly includes:

📌 Practical Tools: Tested resources to save you time, enhance your creativity, and make AI work for your impact goals.

📌 Career Opportunities: Curated listings of jobs, fellowships, funding, and upskilling options at the intersection of AI and social change.

📌 Insights You Can Use: Real-world applications, tips, and ethical considerations to help you harness AI responsibly.

📌 Changemaker Spotlights: Stories of inspiring people and organizations innovating with AI for good.

📌 Ethical AI Discussions: Straightforward takes on what works, what doesn’t, and the challenges ahead.

This Week’s Top Tools

Claude
Our all-time favorite AI assistant for impact work. Why? Claude combines thoughtful analysis, a user-friendly interface, and strong privacy measures. Whether you need to summarize dense documents, brainstorm complex ideas, or draft nuanced content, Claude excels in delivering clarity and precision. Bonus: Claude’s Project Features allow for personalized training, making it perfect for custom workflows. The big limitation to Claude it isn’t able to browse the Internet like ChatGpt and other tools are able to do so. We do also lots Chatgpt and lots of other toools.
Gamma
An absolute lifesaver for creating polished presentations, documents, and even websites in minutes. Gamma’s intuitive interface helps you design visually stunning materials that save hours of effort (affiliate link if you sign up we will receive a small % of revenue. If you sign up with our link you will also get free credits to try the tool out). Check out Gamma.
Beehiiv
The world’s best platform for newsletters, designed for both creators and subscribers. Makes it easy to build and engage your audience, with robust analytics and powerful growth tools and they are building at an amazing speed. (affiliate link if you sign up we will receive a small % of revenue. They also have a free option for up to 2500 subscribers). Check out Beehiiv
LexPage
The go-to tool for clear and professional writing. Whether refining grant proposals or drafting application materials, LexPage makes your work shine.
Canva 🎨 Intuitive design platform for creating professional visuals and building in lots more AI features. We use this all the time (although for presentations Gamma is our to go tool). Check out Canva

Quick Tips to Amplify Impact with AI

1. Use Claude for Brainstorming
Tackling a big project? Let Claude help you organize your ideas, refine key points, and develop clear next steps—all with the highest standards of privacy.

2. Create Visual Magic with Gamma
Turn your data or ideas into presentations that wow stakeholders. Gamma ensures that your materials look professional, modern, and engaging with minimal effort.

3. Simplify Communication with Beehiiv
Whether building an audience or reaching your network, Beehiiv simplifies newsletter creation and keeps your content polished and professional.

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News & Resources

Joke of the week

Why did the AI refuse to go to a party?
It didn’t want to crash any systems! 🤖🎉

AI Impact News

"AI Can Now Create a Replica of Your Personality"
MIT Technology Review (Nov 2024): AI is now capable of creating replicas of user personalities for uses like interactive storytelling or memorializing loved ones. However, the technology raises ethical questions about consent, data misuse, and privacy risks.
Read more
"Filipino AI Chatbot Launches in 2025 Local Languages"
Rest of World (Nov 2024): A new chatbot supports over 200 Philippine languages, demonstrating AI’s power in preserving linguistic diversity and improving accessibility in underserved regions.
Read more
"AI Models Predict Faster-Than-Expected Global Temperature Rise"
Nature (Dec 2024): AI climate models suggest global temperatures may rise faster than previously anticipated, underscoring the urgency for climate mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Read more
"AI in Talent Acquisition: Challenges for 2025"
Korn Ferry: AI continues to transform hiring by improving candidate matching and reducing bias. However, over-reliance on algorithms and challenges around data integrity persist.
Read more

Organization Profile:

80000 Hours
A job board featuring careers focused on social impact, including roles in AI and technology that align with ethical principles and global challenges.
Visit the site

LinkedIn Profile:

Michael Berhane
CEO of POCIT, a platform dedicated to empowering Black and Brown individuals in tech through career resources and media.
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Key Tool & Practical Tip

Boardy.AI - Great Example of AI Driven Networking putting humans and connection first. Give it a try.

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AI for Impact Opportunities

AI Safety Strategist (Contractor / RFP) – BlueDot Impact, Remote or UK Based

Transformative AI could be humanity’s most consequential technology, with potential for both immense benefit and catastrophic harm through misuse or loss of control.
Despite these risks, few people with the right combination of skills, context, and motivation are working in roles reducing these risks.

Our courses aim to provide people with these attributes, so they can contribute to catastrophic risk reduction from AI.

Product Manager - AI for Impact, Boston

About the Opportunity About The Opportunity: We are seeking a talented product manager to work with teams of undergraduate and graduate students trained in AI to deliver projects that enhance lives in collaboration with government agencies, nonprofit organizations and affected communities. At AI for Impact pairs of teams of students work full time for six months to build agile generative AI solutions supported with professional coaching, supervision, and mentoring. Be part of this groundbreaking “product-based learning” program and help create AI for impact.

Crash Course: Ethics of AI - Subject Matter Expert

What you'll do: As our freelance SME, you'll be responsible for developing the course outline and episode list for this Crash Course series.

Career development and transition funding | Open Philanthropy

This program aims to provide support – in the form of funding for graduate study, unpaid internships, independent study, career transition and exploration periods, and other activities relevant to building career capital – for individuals at any career stage who want to pursue careers that could help to reduce global catastrophic risks (including AI safety)

Learn with Us - Internet Society

Learning @ Internet Society is a way to bring people together in support of an open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy Internet.
Choose from moderated online courses, face-to-face courses, and self-paced tutorials—all free.

Our courses provide you with practical technical skills designed and delivered by Internet experts. You will gain knowledge and skills on how the Internet works, how it is governed, and how to keep the Internet and its users safe and secure.

Advisor/Senior Advisor – Outer space security | HD

HD is developing a new thematic focus on outer space security dedicated to preventing and mitigating conflict-related risks and threats

Center for AI Safety - Chief Development Officer

The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a leading research and field-building organization on a mission to reduce societal-scale risks from AI. Alongside our sister organization, the CAIS Action Fund, we tackle the toughest AI issues with a mix of technical, societal and policy solutions. Our work includes publishing a global statement on AI Risk signed by Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and CEOs from the major AI labs and running a large compute cluster for global academic researchers working on AI safety research. The Chief Development Officer (CDO) plays a critical role in advancing CAIS’s mission by leading strategic fundraising efforts and building meaningful relationships with donors, partners, and stakeholders. This role involves designing and executing innovative fundraising strategies, securing grants, crafting compelling proposals, and organizing high-impact events. In collaboration with program teams, the CDO aligns fundraising initiatives with program goals to maximize CAIS’s

World Resources Institute is looking for Analista en investigación, datos e impacto, Colombia

Senior Machine Learning Scientist

This is a remote position. We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Scientist to lead the research and development of innovative AI and machine learning models for mDoc’s health tech platform.

Executive Associate to Co-CEO & Head of Portfolio, Imagine Learning, Africa based

The Executive Associate will play a supporting role in carrying out Imagine’s mission, to design, test and scale tablet-based learning solutions that enable children to become literate and numerate. The position offers an international, flexible, learning environment to enhance individual career development and growth.