# Global Progress in the AI Era: How GiveDirectly is using AI to deliver cash faster

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Podcast: [This Week in Global Development](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-global-development-6311778)
Published: 2026-03-23T21:56:11+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode of Global Progress in the AI Era, Nick Allardice explains how GiveDirectly is using AI to deliver faster, more direct aid — from anticipatory cash transfers in Bangladesh to near real-time responses in crisis zones. The conversation explores what it takes to move from theory to practice, and how AI is forcing new trade-offs around speed, targeting, and dignity in humanitarian response.

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