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Anthropic expands AI support for nonprofits as it files to sell shares to the public · Best of: Features

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  Anthropic spans AI support for nonprofit as it filed to sell shares
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  to the public Written by Glenn Gamboa This article is being read
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  by an automated voice generated by Everlet. Anthropic expanded its support
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  for the non profit sector Monday, even as the Artificial Intelligence Company
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  filed to sell shares to the public for the first time. The
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  maker of the AI assistant, Claude, said the moves are all part
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  of its broader strategy for compounding good. Anthropic launched a new Cloud
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  for Nonprofits plugin created with 30 nonprofits to be more responsive to
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  their specific needs. It will also broaden its Cloud Core program that
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  embeds fellows with nonprofits to help them better utilize AI by also
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  making consultants available to help organizations with smaller, shorter-term projects. This work
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  is so core to who we are as a public benefit corporation.
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  Elizabeth Kelly, Anthropics Head of Beneficial Deployments, told the Associated Press. We
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  were founded to ensure that we're both developing AI safely and responsibly,
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  and that we're deploying it in a way that really benefits everyone,
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  including those who are too often left behind. Earlier this month, Anthropic
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  announced plans to commit 5 of its shares to a new Anthropic
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  public benefit fund that could be used for large-scale donations to nonprofits
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  or directly distributed to groups of people adversely impacted by AI. The
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  fund and still needs to be approved by shareholders once Anthropic completes
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  its IPO, which could come as early as November. Critics say AI
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  companies are using donations and non profit pledges as an attempt to
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  generate goodwill with the public at a time when so many are
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  worried about the potential dangers of the technology and its impact on
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  jobs. However, Anthropic says that as a public benefit corporation, it balances
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  its commercial interests with the interests of them, public good. Anthropic President
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  Daniela Amadei told the Associated Press in a May interview that the
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  company works to make that balance clear. I think there's something really
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  valuable about that. As a construct, just to help investors and employees
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  and outside people understand what our intentions are, and hold us accountable
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  to them, she said. Other public benefit corporations include eyeglass maker Warby
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  Parker, insurance company Lemonade, and Amalgamated Bank. Questioning whether public benefit
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  corporations work for the public Bella Devon, director of the Charity Reform
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  Initiative at the Institute for Policy Studies, said that public benefit corporations
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  can be meaningful, but the federal government doesn't currently properly regulate corporations.
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  Without tax reform and a change in what she calls the public
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  permissiveness toward billionaire power in America, Devon said there is no guarantee
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  that even public benefit corporations will act in the public interest. Their
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  wealth belongs to the public in the first place. It's created by
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  The country, and there's a sort of social wage owed to people
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  who use their products, she said. I hope that when people use
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  the ethos of Silicon Valley that gave birth to these companies, that
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  have grand designs of changing the world, what they'll also think about
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  how philanthropy could actually achieve charitable aims. Kelly said Anthropic's work with
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  the nonprofit sector is part of the company's mission. The bulk of
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  the twenty five thousand nonprofits currently using Claude for nonprofits have less
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  than ten people on staff, so its impact on the organizations is
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  often great. She points to Allies Against Slavery, the Texas based nonprofit
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  fighting human trafficking, as an example of what is possible, after its
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  only government affairs staffer used Claude to analyze more than seven hundred
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  and fifty state level anti trafficking policies and turn them into recommendations
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  for advocates. This is basically compounding good, she said. That's the kind
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  of work that we're so excited to support here at Anthropic. Some
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  nonprofits already find help from using Claude, but Montgomery
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  County Food Bank president and CEO Scott Burns said his organization's use
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  of clod has already generated significant savings that allow it to provide
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  food to more people in his Texas county north of Houston. Costs
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  have gone up for fuel, Byrne said. Costs have gone up in
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  every area for proteins in particular. I still want to be able
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  to do more without adding a bunch of additional resources, and Claude
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  will enable me to do that. The Montgomery County Food Bank is
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  one of the thirty nonprofits that has been working with Anthropic to
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  better customize Claude for its specific needs. Burns said his team has
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  already used it to optimize scheduling for food pickup and delivery and
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  keeping better contact with donors. He is looking forward to welcoming two
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  Claude Corps fellows into the organization soon to tackle its outdated inventory
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  system and them scheduling of its Follitz volunteers. Burns said he is
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  also hoping to share his findings with other food banks. Nonprofits were
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  kind of an open book, he said. Why would I not share?
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  It's only going to help get more people fed, right? Taproot Foundation
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  CEO Kat Ward said her nonprofit is excited about working with Anthropic
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  to provide pro bono expertise to nonprofits for specific projects. Nonprofits are
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  as lean as they come, Ward said. They've got the ambition, they've
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  got the vision. This is about empowering them with tools that'll help
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  them go further faster. Associated Press Coverage of Philanthropy and Nonprofits receives
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