As AI adoption increases across the global education sector, advancement teams require a set of guiding principles for implementation as the technology evolves.
I appreciate a lot have concerns and rightly so but the power of the technology, yielded strategically and responsibly, has the capability to reduce administrative time - something you can direct back to that all important HUMAN relationship work. That’s one thing I think all advancement professionals will agree on Courtney - relationships are best managed by humans (with a little help from their AI friends where necessary and appropriate). Thanks for your comment.
Your emphasis on taking responsibility for AI’s output gives “human judgment” something concrete to mean.
The next question for me is what happens to the time we get back from the use of AI. Does a fundraiser call a donor they haven’t spoken with in six months, or does the organization simply produce more communication? Are we simply doing what we already do more efficiently, or is the actual output increasing on balance?
That responsibility also means seriously questioning what we review. Approval alone might not tell us much.
When someone tells me they are using AI, I always ask “what and how”. In some cases, I’ve asked them to show me. I love learning how people are deploying AI tools.
I appreciate a lot have concerns and rightly so but the power of the technology, yielded strategically and responsibly, has the capability to reduce administrative time - something you can direct back to that all important HUMAN relationship work. That’s one thing I think all advancement professionals will agree on Courtney - relationships are best managed by humans (with a little help from their AI friends where necessary and appropriate). Thanks for your comment.
Your emphasis on taking responsibility for AI’s output gives “human judgment” something concrete to mean.
The next question for me is what happens to the time we get back from the use of AI. Does a fundraiser call a donor they haven’t spoken with in six months, or does the organization simply produce more communication? Are we simply doing what we already do more efficiently, or is the actual output increasing on balance?
That responsibility also means seriously questioning what we review. Approval alone might not tell us much.
When someone tells me they are using AI, I always ask “what and how”. In some cases, I’ve asked them to show me. I love learning how people are deploying AI tools.