OpenAI wants to fight hunger in the world
With the United Nations World Food Program and Share The Meal, OpenAI wants to find out how best to collect donations.
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Artificial intelligence is to provide “scalable solutions for global hunger”, according to a press release from OpenAI. In it, the AI company announces its collaboration with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and Share The Meal. Specifically, the aim seems to be to collect as many donations as possible.
The WFP teams from Munich are to use ChatGPT to improve the collection of donations and the provision of aid to those in need. And the Berlin-based Share The Meal team will also use the AI service primarily for communication – and “explore how AI can personalize the approach to donors and customers and open up new fundraising opportunities”.
OpenAI cites an analysis by the World Food Program, according to which 343 million people worldwide are affected by “acute food insecurity”. This is an increase of ten percent since 2024.
Convincing people with AI and somehow improving things
Share The Meal offers an app that can be used to make donations. AI is intended to “personalize the engagement of donors and customers, increase donations and create new innovative fundraising opportunities”. In addition to these measures to get people to do something, the collaboration also envisages other, albeit somewhat unclear, measures. OpenAI writes: “This could range from improving decision-making to transforming the entire global emergency response and accelerating the growth of high-impact start-ups to fight hunger around the world.”
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It should be borne in mind that AI has so far consumed massive amounts of energy and resources, both in development and in operation. A query to ChatGPT is said to cost around ten times as much as a Google query (without AI overview). The consumption and costs are likely to be at odds with the desire to combat world hunger. OpenAI's ultimate goal, however, is to develop AI that benefits humanity as a whole.
(emw)
