Humanitarian AI Today

Humanitarian AI Today

Humanitarian AI Today is the leading AI for Good podcast series focusing on humanitarian applications of artificial intelligence. We interview leaders, developers and innovators advancing humanitarian applications of AI from across the tech and humanitarian communities. The series is produced by the Humanitarian AI meetup.com community, linking local groups in Cambridge, San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, Toronto, Montreal, London, Paris, Berlin, Oslo, Geneva, Zurich, Bangalore, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.

  1. Annie Brown from Humane Intelligence on their Bias Bounty Program

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    Annie Brown from Humane Intelligence on their Bias Bounty Program

    Voices is a new mini-series from Humanitarian AI Today. In daily five-minute flashpods we pass the mic to humanitarian experts and technology pioneers, to hear about new projects, events, and perspectives on critical topics. In this flashpod, Annie Brown, a Data Scientist with Humane Intelligence, talks about her team’s Bias Bounty program and how to get involved in an interview with Brent Phillips, Producer of Humanitarian AI Today. They discuss Humane Intelligence's work focusing on collaboratively designing and running rigorous evaluations that make AI systems more accountable, responsible, and fair, their bias bounty program and the strategy behind it as well as touch on how volunteers can get involved and launch their research. Substack notes: https://humanitarianaitoday.substack.com/p/annie-brown-from-humane-intelligence

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  2. Petya Kangalova Introduces Humanitarian OpenStreetMap’s Tech and Innovation Working Group

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    Petya Kangalova Introduces Humanitarian OpenStreetMap’s Tech and Innovation Working Group

    Voices is a new mini-series from Humanitarian AI Today. In daily five-minute flashpods we pass the mic to innovators, researchers and practitioners on the humanitarian front lines, delivering real-time news on how they are building, testing and collaborating on uses of artificial intelligence. In this flashpod, Petya Kangalova, Technology Partnerships and Engagement Lead with Humanitarian Open Street Map joins Brent Phillips, Humanitarian AI Today podcast Producer, to discuss Humanitarian Open Street Map’s Technology and Innovation Working Group, its monthly working group open discussion sessions and how people can tune-in. Substack Notes: https://humanitarianaitoday.substack.com/p/petya-kangalova-introduces-humanitarian

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  3. Erica Gralla on a New Study Mapping the Impact of Funding Cuts on Humanitarian Aid

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    Erica Gralla on a New Study Mapping the Impact of Funding Cuts on Humanitarian Aid

    Voices is a new mini-series from Humanitarian AI Today. In daily five-minute flashpods we pass the mic to innovators, researchers and practitioners on the humanitarian front lines, delivering real-time news on how they are building, testing and collaborating on uses of artificial intelligence. In this flashpod, Erica Gralla, an Associate Professor at George Washington University , shares news about a new project seeking to understand the impact of recent aid funding cuts on the humanitarian and development system. The study specifically looks at how major funding cuts to U.S. aid programs in 2025 are affecting the sector. She calls on listeners who work in aid or development to participate in the study by taking a "global pulse survey". This project brings together three professors from the fields of engineering, policy, and international relations. Their goal is to understand how the funding cuts are affecting relationships, coordination, information sharing, and supply chains across organizations. By tracking how the aid ecosystem is adapting, the team hopes to capture lessons from this challenging period and help the humanitarian community chart a path forward. Erica and Humanitarian AI Today producer, Brent Phillips, discuss the survey in detail, how people can get involved, what the research team expects to learn, and the project's next steps. Survey Link: http://go.gwu.edu/AidTrack Substack Notes: https://humanitarianaitoday.substack.com/p/erica-gralla-from-george-washington

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  4. Bill Greer from Common Space on Building Dedicated Satellites for the Humanitarian Community

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    Bill Greer from Common Space on Building Dedicated Satellites for the Humanitarian Community

    Voices is a new mini-series from Humanitarian AI Today. In daily five-minute flashpods we pass the mic to innovators, researchers and practitioners on the humanitarian front lines, delivering real-time news on how they are building, testing and collaborating on uses of artificial intelligence. In this podcast episode, Bill Greer, Co-founder of Common Space joins Senior Geospatial Data Scientist, Gijs van den Dool to discuss Common Space’s work focusing on building open-licensed, freely accessible, high-resolution earth observation satellites dedicated to humanitarian aid. They discuss the project from technical vantage points and address core problems that Common Space aims to solve. They touch on the accessibility of satellites and data for use by humanitarian organizations and how aid funding cuts, structural changes in the commercial imagery market, limited observational capacity and competition combined with the critical need for the humanitarian community to avoid overreliance on third-parties for critical services, necessitate the development of initiatives like Common Space. Brent Phillips who produces the Humanitarian AI Today podcast incorporates a new question into the mini-series, asking Bill: If you were standing in front of a bold transformative philanthropist like MacKenzie Scott, what would be your argument for funding Common Space? Bill’s answer outlines the importance of providing the humanitarian community with guaranteed access to satellite imagery. Substack notes: https://humanitarianaitoday.substack.com/p/bill-greer-from-common-space-on-building

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  5. Rich Woods from Tech To The Rescue on AI and the Future of Fundraising

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    Rich Woods from Tech To The Rescue on AI and the Future of Fundraising

    Voices is a new mini-series from Humanitarian AI Today. In daily five-minute flashpods we pass the mic to innovators, researchers and practitioners on the humanitarian front lines, delivering real-time news on how they are building, testing and collaborating on uses of artificial intelligence. In this flashpod, Rich Woods, Global Fundraising Lead with Tech To The Rescue, joins Brent Phillips, Humanitarian AI Today Producer, to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on fundraising and how Tech To The Rescue is adapting and leveraging AI while prioritizing authentic human interaction with grantmakers. They discuss Tech To The Rescue’s mission and evolution and speak in depth about how AI is challenging fundraisers. Rich emphasizes that while AI allows fundraisers to conduct deep research and personalize outreach on a massive scale, there is a significant risk of losing authenticity. Prospecting can generate vast amounts of information quickly, but the fundraiser may lack a genuine connection to the data. He stresses the importance of taking the time to "live" the research to ensure communications remain human-to-human. Looking toward systemic changes, Rich shares his hope that AI can help reform the fundraising process, which he calls a long-broken and resource-heavy system for nonprofits. Peering further into the future, Rich envisions AI applications acting as matchmakers, connecting funders and organizations with shared interests to facilitate open, valuable conversations and partnerships. Substack notes: https://humanitarianaitoday.substack.com/p/rich-woods-from-tech-to-the-rescue

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  6. Eric Talbert on Building Hyper-Local, AI-Powered Supply Chains for Medical Surplus

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    Eric Talbert on Building Hyper-Local, AI-Powered Supply Chains for Medical Surplus

    Voices is a new mini-series from Humanitarian AI Today. In daily five-minute flashpods we pass the mic to innovators, researchers and practitioners on the humanitarian front lines, delivering real-time news on how they are building, testing and collaborating on uses of artificial intelligence. In this flashpod, Eric Talbert, Co-founder of MedCycle Network joins Humanitarian AI Today host Brent Phillips to discuss Eric’s background in human rights, supply and logistics, MedCycle’s work, their partnership with the Hellman Foundation and ways MedCycle is experimenting with artificial intelligence. MedCycle Network facilitates the collection of donated, high-quality surplus medical supplies and equipment so they can be distributed to local safety net clinics. Eric and Brent discuss challenges that organizations like MedCycle and similar organizations like MedShare and Partners for World Health share around working with hospitals and companies to prevent medical supplies from being discarded that could otherwise be donated to needy healthcare providers struggling to care for their communities. They talk how AI-powered decentralized surplus supplies ecosystems can impact and inform choices made around the trash barrel in real-time, to redirect usable supplies to clinics in need on an item-by-item basis. Substack Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/humanitarianaitoday/p/eric-talbert-from-medcycle-networks?r=e9cbk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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  7. Shannon Farley on Fast Forward's 2025 AI for Humanity Report

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    Shannon Farley on Fast Forward's 2025 AI for Humanity Report

    Voices is a new mini-series from Humanitarian AI Today. In daily five-minute flashpods we pass the mic to innovators, researchers and practitioners on the humanitarian front lines, delivering real-time news on how they are building, testing and collaborating on uses of artificial intelligence. In this flashpod, Shannon Farley, Co-founder and Executive Director of Fast Forward joins Eric Talbert, Co-founder of MedCycle Network to discuss Fast Forward’s 2025 AI for Humanity Report, which is a roadmap for harnessing AI for impact written by Fast Forward with support from Google.org. For over a decade, Fast Forward has supported social good initiatives, evolving with technology to become an important and direct accelerator of AI adoption in the social sector. Drawing upon its experience, the 2025 AI for Humanity report shows how nonprofits are using AI to transform lives and offers a roadmap for how to build on these successes responsibly. However, while AI has been able to create incredible efficiencies and opportunities, it also comes with new costs. The report reveals that a lack of funding is the most common obstacle for nonprofits, often preventing them from hiring the specialized tech experts they need to move uses of AI forward. Shannon emphasizes that philanthropy can directly address this gap. Even modest budget increases allow nonprofits to dramatically expand their reach, meaning an investment in a nonprofit's AI talent and infrastructure is a direct investment in scaling social impact. Substack Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/humanitarianaitoday/p/shannon-farley-on-fast-forwards-2025?r=e9cbk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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  8. Philippe Stoll on AI Techplomacy, IT Challenges and the 'Do-No-Harm' Imperative

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    Philippe Stoll on AI Techplomacy, IT Challenges and the 'Do-No-Harm' Imperative

    Voices is a new mini-series from Humanitarian AI Today. In daily five-minute flashpods we pass the mic to innovators, researchers and practitioners on the humanitarian front lines, delivering real-time news on how they are building, testing and collaborating on uses of artificial intelligence. In this episode, Philippe Stoll, Senior "Techplomacy" Delegate with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), joins Humanitarian AI Today host Brent Phillips to discuss the complex issues that digital technologies create for humanitarian organizations and for people affected by conflict from an IT perspective. They discuss the growing pressure on organizations to experiment with AI, highlighting the significant backend IT effort required to safely deploy and maintain these systems. This deployment introduces new operational and security risks, demanding a highly cautious and ethical "do-no-harm" approach to protect vulnerable populations. Stoll also explains how the ICRC collaborates with academia to help evaluate new applications and find solutions to complex problems. Philippe closes with a call for greater cross-disciplinary collaboration, urging experts from humanitarian, academic, and technology sectors to engage with one another to better understand each other's perspectives. Notes: https://humanitarianaitoday.substack.com/p/philippe-stoll-on-ai-techplomacy

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Humanitarian AI Today is the leading AI for Good podcast series focusing on humanitarian applications of artificial intelligence. We interview leaders, developers and innovators advancing humanitarian applications of AI from across the tech and humanitarian communities. The series is produced by the Humanitarian AI meetup.com community, linking local groups in Cambridge, San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, Toronto, Montreal, London, Paris, Berlin, Oslo, Geneva, Zurich, Bangalore, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.

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