The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

For technology to shape social change, organizations need trusted pathways to learn how AI can further their missions. If you haven’t checked out PJMF’s new Learning Hub yet, see our AI Use Case Library: https://loom.ly/P91xXA0 This collection of case studies highlights our partners’ transformative applications of AI and how they align with specific AI use cases. By sharing these stories, we aim to provide a guiding light to AI learning, and inspire new applications that serve humanity best. We can’t wait to continue building out this library. If you know of any nonprofit organizations that have built AI solutions that we should add, please share them through the form at the bottom of the AI Use Case Library page.

"Policy is about a set of shared and common values, about how we see the future, and how we align all of our efforts in realizing that future." —Vilas Dhar, President, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation PJMF President Vilas Dhar joined Dr. Athina Kanioura on TIME Magazine and PepsiCo’s Future Back Drinking podcast for a thought-provoking and inspiring conversation that reframes AI regulation as an investment in humanity. Effective regulation can create conditions where human innovation can flourish. When policymakers use regulatory frameworks to expand resources, they open doors to innovative solutions from unexpected places. Find the full podcast episode here: https://loom.ly/a_I_Tmk #TechForGood #AI

“An AI future that really serves humanity requires that we include all people, because every single one of us is part of this ‘humanity’ that we talk about.” In the most recent PJMF Partner Spotlight, Cynthia Picolo, the Executive Director at the Laboratory of Public Policy and the Internet (LAPIN), and her colleague, Felipe R., shared insights with PJMF’s Yolanda Botti-Lodovico on how civil society stakeholders are demanding more inclusive AI governance. The Brazil-based organization has advanced critical dialogue on topics such as environmental sustainability, cultural and linguistic preservation, and uplifting community values and norms in an AI future. Read more about their work here: https://loom.ly/IFQampU #TechForGood #AI

To fully harness #AI's potential while ensuring user protection and building trust, transparent and accountable AI governance is essential ✔️ In this #MWC25MP session, Paula Ingabire, Jerry Sheehan, Kaan Terzioglu, Vilas Dhar, and Alix Jagueneau—fresh from discussions at WEF Davos—will explore how governments and industry can collaborate to leverage AI for societal and economic benefit 🔍 Learn more about the session here 👉 https://gsma.at/mD

The future of our food system sustainability is being developed at the convergence of biology, human innovation, artificial intelligence - and hundreds of millions of bugs! Nature's most efficient protein factories have been hiding in plain sight. While we've been debating sustainable food futures, black soldier flies have been quietly demonstrating how to create abundance from what we've overlooked. I visited the Innovafeed facility in Nesle, France with Mathilde Barge to explore how AI is helping reshape our core food systems. Innovafeed has built something remarkable: a system where these flies - with metabolism 25x more efficient than cattle - transform agricultural by-products into high-quality protein and oils. These ingredients replace resource-intensive fishmeal and fish oil in aquaculture and animal feed, addressing our protein challenge without requiring additional farmland, driving deforestation, or depleting oceans. AI systems continuously analyze millions of data points across their facility, predicting growth patterns and optimizing conditions in real-time. It's running today and producing nutrition with 80% less carbon impact than conventional methods. When we talk about sustainability, we often frame it as a sacrifice. This approach reveals the opposite: abundance through smarter systems. Using technology not to extract more from our world, but to create regenerative loops where outputs become inputs. And it's proof that transformative AI doesn't only emerge from Silicon Valley, but often in unexpected sectors like agriculture where practical problems demand inventive solutions. The technologies pioneered in these unlikely places - where insects meet algorithms - will ultimately reshape how we feed our planet. The future belongs to those who see possibility in what others have overlooked. My gratitude to CEO Clément Ray for the warm welcome at the factory and to Nadège AUDIFFREN and Enzo Ballestra, for making this insightful visit possible! #CircularEconomy #FoodSystems #SustainableInnovation #AI #FutureFarming The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

Artificial intelligence is driving a new era of civil rights advocacy. Grounded in the victories of civil rights champions – both past and present –  the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) are leveraging existing laws to protect civil liberties while pushing for new laws that respond to the unique challenges of an AI-enabled world. The two share a common goal: to fight the harms of AI and unregulated algorithmic decision-making in housing, hiring, healthcare, and beyond, while creating new pathways for AI to uncover injustice and expand opportunity for marginalized communities across the nation. Please join us on Tuesday, February 25th at 1 PM EST for a special Black History Month conversation between our VP of Strategy and Innovation, Nick Cain, the Chief AI Officer at NFHA, Michael Akinwumi, and the Head of Analytics at the ACLU, Ranya Ahmed. They will discuss the Black leaders who inspire their ongoing fight for civil rights, how AI is impacting civil liberties today, the digital tools that can help, and the shared road ahead for all those working to uphold civil and human rights in the modern world.

Artificial intelligence is driving a new era of civil rights advocacy. Grounded in the victories of civil rights champions – both past and present –  the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) are leveraging existing laws to protect civil liberties while pushing for new laws that respond to the unique challenges of an AI-enabled world. The two share a common goal: to fight the harms of AI and unregulated algorithmic decision-making in housing, hiring, healthcare, and beyond, while creating new pathways for AI to uncover injustice and expand opportunity for marginalized communities across the nation. Please join us on Tuesday, February 25th at 1 PM EST for a special Black History Month conversation between our VP of Strategy and Innovation, Nick Cain, the Chief AI Officer at NFHA, Michael Akinwumi, and the Head of Analytics at the ACLU, Ranya Ahmed. They will discuss the Black leaders who inspire their ongoing fight for civil rights, how AI is impacting civil liberties today, the digital tools that can help, and the shared road ahead for all those working to uphold civil and human rights in the modern world.

With 2 weeks to go until the conference, we're thrilled to be able to share some of our amazing keynote speakers! Vilas Dhar is an inspiring voice of hope and engagement for an AI-enabled, human-centered future.  He serves as President and Trustee of The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, a 21st-century $1.5 billion philanthropy advancing AI and data solutions to create a thriving and sustainable future for all. Appointed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to the High-Level Advisory Body on AI, Vilas is also the US Government Nominated Expert to the Global Partnership on AI. He serves on the OECD Expert Working Group on AI Futures, the Global Future Council on AI at the World Economic Forum, and Stanford's Advisory Council on Human-Centered AI. He is Chair of the Center for Trustworthy Technology. His LinkedIn Learning course, Ethics in the Age of Generative AI, is the most-viewed AI ethics course globally, reaching over 300,000 learners. His keynote will talk about how for all of human history, we've built our societies around managing limited resources. Our laws, our markets, our institutions - they're all designed to answer one question: Who gets what when there isn't enough to go around? But what happens when AI fundamentally changes the equation of scarcity? For the first time in human history, we face an unprecedented choice: continue managing scarcity by habit, or seize this moment to design a world of universal abundance. The technology is coming - is our imagination ready to make the most of it?

Vilas Dhar is a global AI policy expert and president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. He recently wrote an OpEd for U.S. News on how China’s AI breakthrough could make technology more democratic. #OpEd #AI #DeepSeek #Technology https://lnkd.in/e2TQxb2X

No organization should have to navigate their AI journey on their own. In case you missed it, PJMF has just released a new Learning Hub - a resource to support the amazing work of social sector organizations as they navigate their data and AI transformation. Each resource demystifies AI and the process of adoption while fostering continuous, collaborative learning across the sector. If your organization is relatively early on in your journey, start with our AI 101 for Nonprofit Organizations module to gain your bearings on what AI is and how it can be applied to your work: https://loom.ly/M62nahc We’re actively expanding the Hub with new resources and learning opportunities, so stay tuned for more. Please share your feedback with us on what else you’d like to see in the Hub.