Archive - Anthralytic’s Substack

I Broke the App I Built With AI to Teach How AI Breaks

There is a new card in the How AI Breaks in Social Impact app I built.

Jul 9 • Anthralytic

June 2026

I Used AI to Help Write This Piece. Judge the Output.

Disclosure: I used an AI assistant as a conversation partner while writing this piece.

Jun 29 • Anthralytic

Audio Version - A Hammer Looking for a Nail: Anthropic’s Nonprofit Upskilling Program Repeats International Development's Mistake

Anthralytic is a strategy and evaluation studio for mission-driven organizations.

Jun 28 • Anthralytic

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A Hammer Looking for a Nail: Anthropic’s Nonprofit Upskilling Program Repeats International Development's Mistake

Anthropic is spending one hundred fifty million dollars to put a thousand early-career workers inside nonprofits.

Jun 26 • Anthralytic

Audio Version: Who Should Decide Which AI is Too Dangerous?

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Jun 23 • Anthralytic

6:48

Who Should Decide Which AI Is Too Dangerous?

On June 9, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.

Jun 23 • Anthralytic

Audio Version: Three Moves to Tell If Nonprofit AI Works (and for whom)

AI is being adopted across the nonprofit sector inside a frame that never asks who benefits. A question to hold, a practice to start, a demand to make.

Jun 11 • Anthralytic

8:58

Three Moves to Tell If Nonprofit AI Works (and for whom)

AI is being adopted across the nonprofit sector inside a frame that never asks who benefits. A question to hold, a practice to start, a demand to make.

Jun 8 • Anthralytic

Grading Their Own Homework

The nonprofit sector's evidence base on AI is being produced by the companies selling it.

Jun 3 • Anthralytic

Audio Version: Measuring the Wrong Things Faster

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Jun 1 • Anthralytic

5:39

Measuring the Wrong Thing Faster

AI is accelerating nonprofit work. The dominant report mistakes the acceleration for impact.

Jun 1 • Anthralytic

May 2026

Bonus: How I Accidentally Created an Agentic Text-to-Audio Workflow

This was supposed to be a simple question.

May 31 • Anthralytic

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