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Happy 2025 + Great Tools + Opps, AI for Impact Weekly, Jan 6, 2025

Happy 2025 + Great Tools + Opps, AI for Impact Weekly, Jan 6, 2025

January 06, 2025

📢 Welcome to the First Edition of AI for Impact Weekly – 2025!

Happy New Year! The start of a new year is always a good time to reflect on what matters most and where to focus. While 2024 brought plenty of challenges—climate crises, conflicts, and growing inequality—it also showcased the resilience of those working for a better world.

AI continues to be a powerful force for change, offering innovative solutions while raising essential questions about ethics, privacy, energy usage & equity. The opportunities to use AI for impact are growing, but so is the responsibility to ensure its benefits reach those who need them most.

5 Great Places to Find AI for Impact Opportunities

PCDN.Global
A resource for curated jobs, funding, and learning opportunities focused on impact. The newsletter is packed with insights and can help grow your career while advancing positive change.
80,000 Hours
A platform offering career advice and job opportunities designed to maximize global impact, including roles that use AI for good.
Rippleworks Job Board
Focused on connecting talent with impactful organizations, the board features roles in AI and technology that address critical global challenges.
Responsible Tech Job Board
A place to find positions at the intersection of ethics and technology, with a strong focus on accountability and inclusive AI practices.
Tech Change Job Board
Opportunities here highlight how AI and tech can drive positive change in sectors like education, health, and humanitarian aid.

3 Tips for Building a Career in AI for Impact

Be Curious and Stay Informed
AI moves fast. Keeping up with trends, ethical debates, and applications in different fields can set you apart. Free resources like webinars, newsletters, and podcasts are a great starting point.
Focus on Transferable Skills
Roles in AI for impact often value cross-disciplinary expertise. Highlighting your understanding of both the technical and human side of AI can make a big difference.
Engage with Impact-Focused Communities
Platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter (X), and Bluesky are full of professionals sharing insights and opportunities. Joining groups like the PCDN LinkedIn Group can help build connections and uncover new possibilities.

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News & Resources

😄 Joke of the Day
Why don’t AI systems ever get lost?
Because they always follow their neural "paths"! 🧠🚦

🌍 News Highlights

AI and Disaster Response: AI is now a critical tool in emergency scenarios. Check out this BBC article on how AI technologies are aiding in disaster management and recovery. Read more 🌪️🤖
Economic Impact of AI: Is AI overhyped, or will it truly revolutionize the global economy? Al Jazeera dives into the debate in their latest episode of Counting the Cost. Explore the discussion. 💹
Predictions for 2025: Fast Company asked 25 experts how AI will shape our world in the coming year—covering everything from healthcare to education. Check it out. 🛠️
AI and Human Rights: The Council of Europe introduced HUDERIA, a tool to measure AI’s impact on human rights. Learn how it can help us build ethical AI systems. Learn more. ⚖️

🎧 Podcast Episode
AI Agents: What They Are and Why They're Suddenly All the Buzz—Your Everyday AI unpacks the growing prominence of AI agents and their transformative potential. Listen now. 🎙️

💼 Organization to Watch
World Food Programme (WFP)
The WFP leverages AI to combat hunger, particularly through its Innovation Accelerator. From optimizing food distribution to climate analytics, WFP is redefining global humanitarian aid. Explore opportunities. 🌍🍽️

🔗 LinkedIn Connection
Jessica White
Head of Social Impact, EMEA & LATAM at LinkedIn, Jessica White champions the use of technology for good. Follow her for insights into impactful social innovation and ethical tech. Connect with Jessica. 🌟

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AI for Impact Opportunities

Innovation Lead Consultant, WFP, Munich

The WFP Innovation Accelerator was named by Fast Company as Most Innovative Non-Profit Organization 2021 for its work in identifying, nurturing, and scaling disruptive start-ups and innovations to end global hunger. Based in Munich, Germany, the Innovation Accelerator provides WFP employees, entrepreneurs, and start-ups with funding, hands-on support, and access to WFP’s global operations. Through the Innovation Accelerator, WFP is leveraging unprecedented advances in digital innovation - such as mobile technology, artificial intelligence and blockchain - and new business models to transform the way it serves vulnerable communities across the world.

The SDGx Innovation Lead will have an active role in shaping and delivering the growth strategy of the unit to help achieve impact at scale.

Senior UX Researcher - AERDF, US, Remote

Assessment For Good (AFG) is currently organized around a set of technical prototypes and tech-free solutions spanning six core areas of learner wellbeing (Emotional Development, Engagement, Belonging, Executive Function, Learning Time, Social Development). Generating insights is at the heart of AFG’s work. AFG is building prototypes to generate insights to change the field of learning science. We are seeking a Senior UX Researcher to help advance this work within the Product Team.

External Affairs, Europe, Anthropic, Dublin

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

The Fellowship – Principles of Intelligent Behavior in Biological and Social Systems

The PIBBSS summer research fellowship is designed for researchers from various fields, mostly studying complex and intelligent behavior in natural and social systems but also those studying mathematics, philosophy or engineering, who are motivated by the mission of making AI systems safe and beneficial.

Recruiting 2x three-year postdoctoral researchers and 1-2 PhD students – Synthetic Society

The Synthetic Society research team at the Oxford Internet Institute invites applications from enthusiastic and motivated candidates for two postdoctoral positions and 1-2 PhD positions in 2025, working on cutting-edge research at the intersection of Machine Learning, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, and Public Interest Technology.

Apply Now — MIT Climate & Energy Prize

For students with climatetech and energy start-up ideas that can change the world

Chief Data Officer, DC

This Chief Data Officer position is located in the Bureau for Management, Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters in Washington, DC.

Business Council for Ethics of AI Coordinator, UNSECO, Paris

Design and implement the strategy and work plan of the UNESCO Business Council. The Business Council for Ethics of AI Coordinator will be responsible for the management and expansion of this network, ensuring the implementation of the Recommendation and its participation in key initiatives such as the AI Governance Disclosure Initiative UNESCO-Thomson Reuters. He/she will work under the direct supervision of the Head of the Ethics and IA Section of UNESCO and will report to the Assistant Director-General of the Social and Human Sciences Sector (ADG/SHS).

Tech Policy Fellow/Manager | Kapor Center, Remote, US

Position Overview The Kapor Center is seeking to add a Tech Policy Fellow/Manager to serve as an expert primarily on artificial intelligence...

Join the Board of Directors - Tarbell

Board of Directors (Volunteer) Role Description Applications close at the end of the day on January 12, 2025, Anywhere on Earth. About Tarbell The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism supports journalism that helps society navigate the emergence of increasingly advanced AI.

Apply for the Tarbell Fellowship

A one-year programme for early-career journalists covering AI.

Product Manager, Khan Kids (Hybrid), CA, US

The Khan Academy Kids team is looking for a passionate Product Manager who is driven, tech savvy, and enthusiastic about making an impact on young children and their families.

Senior Policy Adviser, International AI Safety Report (AI Safety Institute)

We are looking for three experienced policy officials to contribute to the International AI Safety Report team.