Responsible Tech Summit Highlights and Upcoming SF Gatherings
Plus new programming, livestreams, and ways to get involved!
👋 Welcome to our latest newsletter! We’re coming off a busy two weeks, having released our latest Responsible Tech Guide and holding three gatherings in NYC. In today’s newsletter, you’ll see videos and pictures from our Responsible Tech Summit: Ensuring Our Tech Future Is Aligned With Democracy. In future newsletters, you’ll see pictures and videos from Ensuring a Safe Online Environment for Youth and our AI Assessments workshop.
📆 This Thursday, join us for a livestream on Shaping the Future of AI, Technology, and Democracy with two of Mozilla’s 2024 Rise25 honorees. If you’re looking for other ways to get involved, we opened applications to be a mentor in our Responsible Tech Mentorship Program and students can apply to lead a Responsible Tech University Network founding chapter.
🚌 We’ll be back in San Francisco to kick off October! Join us for a casual mixer on October 9 with Fast Forward, a Responsible AI gathering on October 10, and we’re partnering with Stanford University’s Public Interest Technology Summit & Career Fair on October 11.
Now, onto the newsletter! 👇
Thank you for joining us at All Tech Is Human’s Responsible Tech Summit!
We were honored to welcome almost 300 people across academia, civil society, government, and industry for our annual Responsible Tech Summit: Ensuring Our Tech Future Is Aligned With Democracy at SVA Theatre this past Monday.
Responsible Tech Summit: Ensuring Our Tech Future Is Aligned With Democracy featured opening remarks by David Ryan Polgar (Founder and President, All Tech Is Human), Sandra Khalil (Associate Director, All Tech Is Human) and J. Bob Alotta (SVP, Global Programs, Mozilla), along with two fireside chats and panel discussions featuring a world-class group of leaders working to promote a better tech future.
We’re thrilled to share videos from our Responsible Tech Summit and invite you to discuss them on our global Slack community featuring more than 10,000 people across 99 countries! ✍️
Fireside chat: Responsible AI - Where Do We Go From Here? featuring Dr. Rumman Chowdhury (Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Humane Intelligence), Rob Reich (Senior Advisor, US AI Safety Institute), and moderator Sinead Bovell (Founder & CEO, WAYE).
Panel discussion: Strategies to Protect Academic & Civil Society Research featuring Nina Jankowicz (Co-Founder and CEO, The American Sunlight Project), Nora Benavidez (Senior Counsel and Director of Digital Justice and Civil Rights, Free Press), Alex Abdo (Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute, Columbia University), and moderator Suzi Ragheb (U.S. Policy Manager, Center for Countering Digital Hate).
Panel discussion: Promoting Global, Multistakeholder Collaboration featuring Filippo Pierozzi (Associate Expert, United Nations), Roberta Braga (Founder and Executive Director, Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas), Jonathan Tan (First Secretary Technology Policy, British Embassy Washington) and moderator Sara Rendtorff-Smith (Chief Policy Advisor - Tech Peace & Security Permanent Mission of Denmark to the UN, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark Ministry).
Fireside chat: The Future of Tech Policy featuring Melissa Flemming (Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, United Nations) in conversation with Justin Hendrix (CEO and Editor, Tech Policy Press).
Explore how Mozilla’s 2024 Rise25 Honorees are Shaping the Future of AI, Technology, and Democracy
Join Mozilla’s 2024 Rise25 Honorees Gemma Galdon Clavell, Ph.D. (CEO & Founder, Eticas) and Cansu Canca, Ph.D. (Director & Founder, AI Ethics Lab) for a livestream discussion exploring their groundbreaking work across AI, democracy, and technology. Moderated by Rebekah Tweed (Executive Director, All Tech Is Human).
Join us in San Francisco on October 10!
We're thrilled to partner with APCO to organize a gathering in San Francisco on October 10!
Join industry leaders, government and policy makers, nonprofit leaders, and social impact advocates for an evening of networking, food and drink, and a State of Responsible AI panel conversation featuring Chris Jones (Director for International Technology for the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), Fatemeh Khatibloo (Director of Responsible AI and Tech, Salesforce), Ian Eisenberg (Head of AI Governance Research, Credo AI and ATIH Affiliate), and Shannon Farley (Co-Founder and Executive Director, Fast Forward).
The Responsible Tech Guide is now available to download!
The Responsible Tech Guide (2024) is our flagship resource here at All Tech Is Human. It is designed to provide information, inspiration, and illumination of pathways for more individuals to be involved in the Responsible Tech ecosystem.
Do you like tackling thorny tech & society issues? Are you looking to understand the people, organizations, and ideas of the Responsible Tech movement? If you answered Yes, this Responsible Tech Guide is for you!
👀 In Case You Missed It…
📜 Last week All Tech Is Human’s David Ryan Polgar and Sherine Kazim discussed the new Responsible Tech Guide and how its evolved since its first release in 2020.
🗳️ Alexis Crews, Senior Fellow for Information Integrity at All Tech Is Human, recently moderated a livestream on Demystifying the Conversation on Technology and Elections. Watch here.
👍 The White House cited our work with Thorn creating industry-leading Safety by Design guidelines to combat AI-generated harms against children, and the public commitments received from major tech companies. Our gathering last week with partner Safe Online focused on this important work.
✍️ Apply to be a mentor in our Responsible Tech Mentorship Program! Do you want to pay your knowledge forward? Apply to mentor others in our upcoming 2025 cohort; applications are due November 1. (For those looking to be mentored, those applications will open on November 1). Questions? Reach out to Sarah Welsh from our team.
📺 David Ryan Polgar, Founder of All Tech Is Human, will speak about All Tech Is Human’s work this Thursday in Budapest in a talk entitled, Our Tech Future Is Up to Us. The talk will be livestreamed through Brain Bar’s YouTube channel at 11:30am ET.
📆 We’re busy working on a Responsible Tech 101 course to be released in early 2025, covering topics including Responsible AI, Trust & Safety, and Public Interest Technology. Reach out to learn more.
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💪 We’re building the world’s largest multistakeholder, multidisciplinary network in Responsible Tech. This powerful network allows us to tackle thorny tech & society issues while moving at the speed of tech. Are you part of a foundation that wants to support our mission? Reach out directly to David Ryan Polgar to learn about our new Responsible Tech Supporters Network launching in early 2025.