Fair and equitable technology is seldom the default. Even more seldom: instrumenting artificial intelligence to achieve social impact at scale.

The potential is massive. By aligning commonly misaligned assets and incentives, Learning Collider’s collaborative research model leads to decision technology systems that advance economic opportunity and upward mobility - not simply AI that “does-no-harm.”

Learning Collider aligns ⤵

• tech innovators + product leads with customer-facing platforms, deep sector knowledge, and access to deep, real-time data,

• high-caliber researchers skilled in experimentation, complex data science, and AI, and

• social-impact philanthropists and investors seeking evidence-based impact pathways.

When we align these assets and incentives, we uncover opportunities where decision technology systems can be built and refined to achieve social missions and business objectives.

Learning Collider builds mutually-beneficial partnerships between academia and product where this is promising potential to improve the economic mobility of underrepresented, disadvantaged, and/or low-income groups.

Partners

• Nonprofit direct service providers

• Mission-driven for-profit entities

• Social-impact philanthropies

Product Roadmaps

• Decision Technology: AI embedded in software and tech platforms that makes decisions or augments human decision-making, including:

  • predictive algorithms

  • screening algorithms

  • recommendation and personalization engines

  • navigation and information systems

• Proprietary technology

• Off-the-shelf technology

Sectors & Applications

• Education

• Workforce Development

• Finance / Microfinance

• Housing Access

• Safety Net Programs

We position best-in-class data science capabilities and research expertise specific to each partnership and product. Our comprehensive landscape analyses uncover organizational value, customer journeys, business pain points, market opportunities, and technical capacity. Through analysis, due diligence, and data exploration, we collaboratively identify where there is potential to build, iterate, and innovate with AI that expands human opportunity while simultaneously achieving outcomes for our partner.