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Charities Adopt AI Faster Than They Can Explain Their Own Decisions
Guy Miasnik, chair and chief executive of Impala, writes in Alliance Magazine that an estimated 79 per cent of charitable organisations now use artificial intelligence in some form, mostly to save time on administration and project management, while only 28 per cent report having any digital strategy. Non-compliance under the EU AI Act can reach fines of up to 7 per cent of annual turnover.
The gap he describes is between speed and direction: tools arrive because funders demand more impact from tighter budgets, not because an organisation has decided where it is going. Grant outcomes sit in one system, funding history in another, and the reasoning behind an approval in an old email thread. Miasnik argues that an organisation unable to account for a decision internally cannot account for it to a donor.
Source: Alliance Magazine · September 22, 2026