Angela Ng

Humanity in the Room event, audience in a lecture hall with AI for Good NYC presentation on screen — Humanity in the Room

5 m Humanity in the Room

AI needs to work for everyone.

Co-founded Humanity in the Room (formerly AI for Good NYC) to bring together the people who build AI and the people who know what tools are actually useful in their communities. Eight events, more than 2,000 members.

AI governanceField-building

Angela Ng testing water filters in South Africa with the Folia Water team — Folia Water, South Africa

10 m Folia Water, Bangladesh and South Africa

Cleaning drinking water through field pilots.

Product engineer and microbiologist on the Drinkable Book. Silver nanoparticle filters tested in villages across Bangladesh and South Africa (2015 to 2017).

WaterGlobal health

The Mindfulness Room at Carnegie Mellon, a calm space with meditation cushions and soft lighting — The Mindfulness Room

15 m The Mindfulness Room, 2012

Built from scratch, replicated globally.

Proposed, designed, and built a student wellness space from nothing at Carnegie Mellon. Now in colleges, hospitals, and high schools worldwide.

Mental healthField-building

Doha, Qatar

20 m Doha, Qatar

First MENA university to earn a Green Flag.

Led CMU-Q to the first FEE EcoCampus certification in the Middle East and North Africa. Carbon offsets, transport, biodiversity, culture change.

ClimateEducation

25 m Notes on AI and philanthropy

Notes on AI and philanthropy.

Weekly notes on where AI money is going, what is being evaluated, and what nonprofits should ask. Written for program officers, nonprofit leaders, and the people who build AI.

Notes and themes, with a source on every claim.

What should a nonprofit do this year to be ready for the new tech money?
Who pays for evaluation, and what should we measure to know whether AI is affecting health, climate, education, and economic mobility?
How do we measure the effect of AI on enabled emissions?

Humanity in the Room (formerly AI for Good NYC)

The latest from the newsletter on AI philanthropy, evaluations, and governance.

By Angela Ng and Paulina Munoz

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30 m Why this matters

Nature is why I think about AI and climate together.

These ecosystems shaped how I think about responsible technology. AI can help us monitor reefs, track species, and model emissions. It also consumes energy and resources. Both things are true, and both need measurement.

A dense school of fish underwater in Indonesia — School of fish, Indonesia

Manta rays gliding through open water in the Maldives — Manta rays, Maldives

A thresher shark in the Philippines — Thresher shark, Philippines

The dots that have been drifting across the page come together into a whale shark.

35 m Depth

The work I want to do goes deep.

Depth means evidence you can trace. Like a whale shark's spots, every case here is its own pattern, and I keep the sources next to it.

Whale sharks are the largest fish in the sea, and they have been tracked diving more than a kilometer down. Each one wears a pattern of spots that belongs to it alone. Researchers use those spots to tell individuals apart and follow them across oceans.

They are endangered, and they feed on the plankton that the whole ocean depends on. That is how I think about the communities I work with. Every dot is different, and the work only holds when we see each one.

40 m Work with me

Let's build something that matters.

I take on: research on AI adoption and safety in nonprofits and public-sector health, evaluation design, and convening.

Funders and program officers: the fastest way to understand my work is the maternal health paper, the newsletter, and the resume.

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