How AI Will Benefit the Social Sector

Author James Stauch
The talk of “moral machines” and panic over AI is becoming the reefer madness of the social sector

Why It Matters

According to James Stauch, director of the Institute for Community Prosperity, the benefits of artificial intelligence for the social sector are getting lost in the larger discussion.

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