# Good in Progress

> Good in Progress (goodinprogress.org) is a browsable library of verified stories about people using AI for good and demonstrating agency to build the future they want to see. Every story is checked against primary sources before publication, with the sources listed at the bottom of the story.

Good in Progress is the counter-narrative to doom-and-hype AI coverage, earned with evidence rather than enthusiasm. Every story is about a person who saw a problem, decided not to wait for permission or a perfect system, and used the tools available to them to do something about it. The person is always the hero. AI is the tool.

Editorial standard: every claim is checked against primary sources, with direct quotes rather than paraphrases. Each candidate story passes a graded scoring rubric and a reputation check on the people and organizations involved before it runs. If a claim cannot be sourced, it does not run. Stories are filed under one of six lenses: Everyday Builders (people), Social Impact (impact), Breakthroughs (breakthrough), Local Spotlights (local), Adaptation (adaptation), and Org Spotlights (org-uplift).

## Stories

- [The radio station that decided te reo Māori was worth building for](https://goodinprogress.org/stories/te-hiku-media-maori-ai): Te Hiku Media in Kaitāia, New Zealand built its own te reo Māori speech model. 2,500 volunteers recorded 300+ hours in ten days; the model transcribes te reo Māori at 92% accuracy, and the community kept ownership of the data.
- [Kingsley Jasi didn't wait for an extension officer. He sent a photo instead.](https://goodinprogress.org/stories/kingsley-jasi-ulangizi-malawi): With roughly one agricultural extension officer per 3,000 farmers in Malawi, farmer Kingsley Jasi used Ulangizi, a Chichewa WhatsApp chatbot by Opportunity International, to diagnose and save his corn crop.
- [David Hughes put the expert in the phone farmers already had](https://goodinprogress.org/stories/david-hughes-plantvillage-nuru): Penn State professor David Hughes built Nuru, an offline computer-vision app that diagnosed cassava disease at 65% accuracy in a peer-reviewed study, beating extension agents (40-58%) and farmers (18-31%).
- [The 8,500 IKEA workers who became design advisers instead of redundancies](https://goodinprogress.org/stories/ikea-billie-reskilling): When IKEA's chatbot Billie took over roughly 47% of routine call center inquiries, parent company Ingka Group retrained 8,500 workers into remote interior design advisers (2021-2023) instead of cutting the team.
- [Racing to Read the Rainforest's Library Before It Burns](https://goodinprogress.org/stories/panama-peru-ai-moth-monitoring): On Barro Colorado Island, Panama, scientists paired 17 years of hand collection with the AMI camera system and open-source Antenna platform, finding 300 new insect species in a week as funding runs out.

## About

- [About Good in Progress](https://goodinprogress.org/about): The mission, the six lenses, and the verification promise: sourced, quoted, and checked, every time.
- [Nominate a story](https://goodinprogress.org/nominate): Submit a story of someone using AI for good; every fact is checked against published sources before a word goes live.

## Optional

- [Sitemap](https://goodinprogress.org/sitemap.xml): Full machine-readable list of all pages.