The Weekly Scan for week of 7 September ’26: responsible AI authority
Fundraising guidance, nonprofit pilots, faster grantmaking, healthcare assurance and frontier AI risk all raise the same question: what happens when authority starts to move?
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News, guidance and practical perspectives on responsible AI in the charity sector.
The Weekly Scan for week of 31 August ’26: As AI becomes the norm, assurance moves into the work
Oxfam’s retail pilot, legal-service research, measurable AI-enabled fraud, invented sources and a critical cyber capability show why assurance has to move into everyday work.
The Weekly Scan for week of 24 August ’26: Moving from AI assistance to dependable execution
Nonprofit implementation, uneven sector support and agent failures show what organisations need as AI moves from individual assistance into delegated execution.
Token literacy: a core capability for responsible AI adoption
Curia AI Perspective An AI Daily Brief episode on tokens prompted a sharper question for charity leaders: not how much AI costs, but what it delivers. The evidence points to a strategic capability, not a technical detail, one that sits squarely inside Principles, People and Capability. J Cromack · Founder & Principal Consultant, Curia AI […]
The Weekly Scan for week of 17 August ’26: Responsible AI has to make value and control work together
The Charity Commission flags AI-enabled fraud, new nonprofit research exposes capability gaps, and practical guidance shows how charities can pursue value while retaining human responsibility and control.
The Weekly Scan for week of 10 August ’26
Four developments showing how responsible AI becomes real through manageable adoption, risk thresholds, trustworthy guidance and built-in transparency.
The Weekly Scan for week of 3rd August ’26: Transparency, trust and organisational readiness
The Beacon CRM cyberattack, new EU AI transparency duties and emerging approaches to oversight show why trust depends on principles supported by people and organisational capability.
The Weekly Scan for week of 27 July ’26: building organisational capability for responsible AI
AI is moving beyond individual tools into the practical work of organisational adoption. This week’s Scan explores AI search visibility, shared language, human oversight, technological control and the questions emerging around AI-generated philanthropic wealth.
The Weekly Scan for week of 20 July ’26
The Weekly Scan, by Curia AI This week, AI moved closer to the centre of government, economic strategy and public-service reform, while a serious security incident demonstrated what can happen when technical capability develops faster than the controls surrounding it. Across policy, accessibility, humanitarian action and sector research, the same question keeps returning, can organisations […]
The Weekly Scan for week of 13 July ’26
Last week’s evidence showed a sector adopting AI faster than its confidence and governance were developing. This week, the picture moves on again. Nonprofits are looking at how AI can increase fundraising capacity without increasing headcount, public-purpose organisations are trying to turn responsible AI principles into practical support, and new research is raising questions about […]