This philanthropy platform lets you donate to charities with an AI-powered voice command

Giving money away has never been so easy—thanks to AI.

Daffy, a platform that facilitates charitable giving, is rolling out a suite of new AI-powered tools that’s making it easier than ever to donate to charity. So easy, in fact, that a Daffy user can feel like a billionaire making a quick donation to their chosen charity without having to fill out forms, mail checks, or any of the other tedium that can slow the giving process down—simply hit a button, or make a verbal command, and make a donation.

Specifically, Daffy’s new tools include a Quick Donate feature, which converts free text or voice commands into an immediate donation. Daffy will need some direction (users choose a charity, donation amount, etc.), but from there, you can simply say to the application “make a donation to the ACLU,” or something similar, to facilitate the donation.

“The idea was to leverage AI to improve the giving experience,” says Daffy CEO Adam Nash. “We looked at the real world to see what benefits the wealthy get—they get concierge service. They don’t need to fill out a bunch of forms or track down an EIN from a database. They tell an assistant they want to make a donation, and it gets done,” he says. The goal, then, was to get as close to that experience as possible while leveraging AI to make it happen.

Over time, too, the feature will learn the specifics of a user’s desired causes or charities, so a user could tell it to make a donation to their child’s school, for example, and Daffy can handle the rest.

And by allowing Daffy to handle the rest, Nash believes that people will give more. Because “friction is the enemy of generosity,” he says. In other words, the easier it is to make a donation, the more donations people will make. If the process is tedious and time-consuming, fewer people are going to do it. “We feel like we’ve proven the hypothesis that technology can help people be more generous,” Nash says. “And we think AI has a role to play.”

Users can also use the AI features to set up recurring donations—like a donation to a local food bank every year on Thanksgiving, for example. In all, Nash thinks that the AI features could open the floodgates to potentially millions of dollars more in donations every year.

“A lot of people are using AI right now and are just playing with it,” Nash says. “We’re trying to use it for something important.”

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