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Empowerment vs. Agency: Are they the same?
By Zezhen Wu
“AI disempowers people.” “AI undermines human agency.”
You could swap those sentences in a conversation about AI and probably carry on without anyone asking what changed. The positive versions work much the same way: AI empow...
In Search of the “Magic” Ingredients of Coaching
By Patricia Andrews Fearon and Mahreen Khan
Graduation programs are among the most ambitious anti-poverty interventions we have – multi-year bundles that identify people in extreme poverty and provide them with multi-dimensional support: a...
Designing AI Coaches, Not Crutches
By Prof. Hamsa Bastani and The Agency Fund
A coach leading an AI-assisted chess training session, part of the RCT described in Poulidis, Bastani & Bastani, “Self-Regulated AI Use Hinders Long-Term Learning” (2025)
A growing concern amid t...
Why We Make Films
By Jamie Walsh
Image credits: S Chingkhei Singha and Noora Health
One of the original inspirations for The Agency Fund was that film can be a remarkably effective way to create social impact.
- In Uganda, students who watched Queen of...
Measuring Agency in a Digital Context
By Zezhen Wu, Beth Goldberg, Rachel Xu
Summary
- The Agency Fund and Google Jigsaw have co-developed a free set of resources and AI tools to help measure how digital and AI tools shape human agency in practice: an open-source Claude...
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