
Can AI Help You Change the World?
In this session from Yale's Creating Change through Social Entrepreneurship course, instructor Teresa Chahine explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the practice of social entrepreneurship, joined by two founders building ventures that incorporate AI tools directly into their work. Chahine reflects on how her own thinking about technology and impact has shifted over eight years of teaching the course, and the conversation considers both the opportunities AI creates for scaling solutions to social problems and the caution founders should exercise in adopting new tools. The founders share firsthand accounts of integrating AI into their organizations, discussing practical tradeoffs around cost, reliability, and mission alignment. The session updates the course's frameworks for a moment when AI capability is changing quickly.