Carolyn Woodard opens with highlights from Good Tech Summit, a three-day Washington D.C. conference bringing together practitioners, funders, and tech leaders focused on responsible AI use in the social sector. She shares standout quotes on AI governance, accountability, and what the sector needs to do differently.

This episode also covers the Claude Cowork tool nonprofits should know about, a privacy change in a new Google Labs tool that affects your data, and the Claude Mythos Preview non-release that has bank executives and governments in emergency meetings.

This episode covers:

Key takeaways from Good Tech Summit, including "We need to stop random acts of AI" and why your AI policy should be grounded in values — not updated every time a new tool drops.
How Claude Cowork compares to Google Workspace Studio and Microsoft Copilot Cowork — and whether nonprofits are better served by AI built into their existing tech stack or a mission-aligned third-party tool.
What Google Opal is, why you may have seen a notice that it sits outside Workspace's enterprise privacy protections, and what nonprofit staff should know about using it.
Why Anthropic built its most powerful AI model ever and then refused to release it publicly and what that points out about our current power imbalance between tech companies and consumers.
"Technology is not a net good or net bad. We don't know yet whether AI will be a net benefit or net harm — but we need to be engaged, literate, and demanding."
Why building AI fluency together as a sector matters; sending staff off to figure it out alone keeps us isolated.

Resources Mentioned:

Good Tech Summit — watch for next year's annual event at goodtechtogether.org
Claude for Nonprofits — Anthropic
Claude Cowork Overview — Anthropic
Google Opal (Google Labs experiment)
Claude Mythos Preview — Anthropic
Claude Mythos Preview — Forbes
Claude Mythos Preview — WIRED
2026 Nonprofit Cybersecurity Incident Report Webinar

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