Putting the AI Windfall to Work

If I worked at a frontier AI lab and just became an overnight billionaire, my first thought would be to do something simple and give it all to GiveDirectly or GiveWell. But organisations in the business of delivering real-world, non-digital services are constrained in their growth by the difficulty ...

CGD's new series on AI philanthropy focuses on what interventions should be funded. The series has therefore inherited the default frame of the current global health architecture. In this blog, I propose an alternative: that the highest value use of new philanthropic money is country health partners...

There is no shortage of opportunities for philanthropy to improve maternal and newborn health. Philanthropy can both scale interventions that already save lives and accelerate innovations that could save many more. This blog illustrates the breadth and depth of potential opportunities available acro...

Nan Ransohoff suggests AI-related wealth may add $37 to $100 billion per year in philanthropic spending in the near future. This blog suggest that support for a maximum vaccination strategy focused on developing and rolling out new vaccines for diseases affecting the world’s poorest people could ha...