AI Snake Oil, Finnish Consulate gathering, and much more!
Plus we are mapping out AI Governance workshops in SF, NYC, and DC
It’s frigid here in NYC this week, so we’re busy filling up the calendar with exciting gatherings across London, DC, and SF for when the temperatures get above freezing.
🗓️Today we’re announcing a May 21st curated gathering in NYC with the Finnish Consulate around strengthening multistakeholder collaboration in Responsible AI, and in our next newsletter we’ll be releasing a report (Responsible Tech Community) that outlines our plans to assist independently-organized gatherings in cities across the globe. We’re excited for it…
🦸♀️Our superpower here at All Tech Is Human is that we serve as a crucial catalyst and connective tissue for the Responsible Tech ecosystem. Throughout 2025, you will see this come into focus more as we announce our Braintrust for tackling thorny tech & society issues and showcase how our unique structure allows us to affect multiple levers of change for aligning our tech future with the public interest.
👋We hope you can join our livestream next Thursday with Arvind Narayanan, author of AI Snake Oil. And for those of you focused on online safety, we will be having a curated gathering for 50 people in Manhattan on Feb 11th to celebrate Safer Internet Day and hear from speakers including Tracy Chou and Alexios Mantzarlis.
Now, onto the newsletter! 👇
🐢Is AI progress slowing down? We know you have thoughts on this, so join us!
Join Rebekah Tweed in conversation with Arvind Narayanan, professor of computer science at Princeton University and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy. He is a co-author of the book AI Snake Oil and a newsletter of the same name.
Some of the topics we will dig into include:
whether or not model scaling is dead
whether or not inference scaling is the next frontier
why we should stop deferring to tech insiders when evaluating those questions
💭Do you have a suggestion for a future livestream guest? Let us know through our livestream nomination form here.
💪We’re uniting stakeholders to strengthen collaboration around Responsible AI
Following our successful gathering last year in partnership with the Consulate General of Finland New York on strengthening the information ecosystem, we’re starting to organize a key gathering for 75 individuals to come together to promote and ensure multistakeholder collaboration around Responsible AI.
The gathering will be held on Wednesday, May 21st from 3:00 to 8:30; there will be two panel conversations and opening remarks at the Finnish Consulate, to be directly followed by a reception at the Finnish Residence in Manhattan.
🗣️We are currently setting up a series of Responsible AI Governance workshops
Did you read our recent AI Governance Workshop summary report? This report was based on our workshop held last September, which raised important questions we’ll be exploring in workshops to be held in SF, DC, NYC, and virtually.
We're looking for organizations and individuals in our community who are interested in supporting our work or partnering with us as we convene our workshop series and also task forces dedicated to tackling some of the thorny tech and society issues that arose during our recent AI governance workshop. Some of these issues include:
Data access for external AI audits: weighing transparency vs privacy
Best practices for evaluating fine-tuned models
Developing new methods of red teaming as AI models scale
Improving the robustness and efficacy of watermarks
Multi-agentic harm mitigation strategies
Labor impacts of multi-agentic AI systems
Environmental impacts and sustainability of generative models
👍We have been growing and strengthening the field of Responsible AI thanks to the support of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, which has generously supported All Tech Is Human since we first became a funded org (2021). Read this new interview with Vilas Dhar, President of the PJMF, who was recently appointed to the United Nations High-Level Advisory Board on Artificial Intelligence by the Secretary General.
🗳️Are you involved in information integrity in elections? All Tech Is Human is working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
All Tech Is Human is currently creating a virtual co-design workshop (January 31, 8:30am - 10:00am ET), along with an invitation-only Expert Dialogue (Feb 25 in Madrid) for in-depth discussions on collaborative mechanisms and best practices in strengthening information integrity across regions. David Ryan Polgar and Sandra Khalil from ATIH will be in Madrid for this special gathering.
We are currently looking for individuals from major platforms (Google, OpenAI, X, Meta, TikTok, Microsoft) who are interested in being involved in this important initiative. The focus will be on:
To improve the effectiveness and relevance of engagement with online platforms on issues related to elections
To elevate learning and best practices in national level coalition-building to address information pollution in elections
Strengthen partnerships and collaborative relationships among electoral stakeholders
🫵How do YOU build community in Responsible Tech?
Be on the lookout for our upcoming Responsible Tech Community report that will arrive in the next newsletter. We’ll be covering ways to build community in the Responsible Tech ecosystem, along with featuring 100+ Responsible Tech orgs and about 20 profile interviews.
We’ve been collecting submissions about thoughts on building community, along with the impact that All Tech Is Human’s large Slack community (over 10k members across 105 countries) has had in creating a more cohesive movement that promotes knowledge-sharing and collaboration.
“The ATIH Slack connected me with people who totally reshaped my understanding of what tech really is and how it can be looked at through different lenses (ex. policy), and ultimately helped me land my first internships in the field!” -Maira Elahi, Student at Western University
“Since joining Slack, I’ve moved across four cities, and ATIH Slack has helped me find responsible technology enthusiasts, practitioners, and organizations after every move. The ATIH Slack makes finding and building a professional network in a new location easy.” -Robin Z. Tharakan, Public Interest Technology Lead at Alkemio (The Hague, Netherlands)
👀 In Case You Missed It…
All Tech Is Human moves at the speed of tech…here are some recent happenings and projects for you to get involved with.
👩💻How do you build a career in tech policy, Trust & Safety, and AI?! Theodora Skeadas, advisor with ATIH, is offering her advice in a one hour virtual conversation being held on Fri, Jan 31 starting at 5pm ET. Sign up here.
🥐Will you be at the Paris AI Action Summit? Our friends at Humane Intelligence have created an AI & Society House alongside the summit which will feature six panel conversations and expos. Learn more here.
📺Did you miss our last livestream on The Year Ahead for the Responsible Tech Ecosystem? No worries, you can watch the conversation with Deb Donig, our Siegel Research Fellow, about the current state of the field, where we may be headed, and advice for getting more involved.
🤔Are you still learning about All Tech Is Human or curious on what we have been up to? Read our Year in Review.
📺Our fireside chat between Julia Angwin and Greg Epstein, about his new book Tech Agnostic (which has a chapter about ATIH), was featured on C-SPAN’s Book TV.
🔭Are you exploring new roles in Responsible Tech? Outside of our popular Responsible Tech Job Board and the hundreds of roles being shared through our Slack (sign in | apply), we recently started a separate careers newsletter you can join.
💡All Tech Is Human’s whole-of-ecosystem approach involved three major areas of focus: multistakeholder community-building, educational resources, and diversifying the Responsible Tech pipeline.
😎Let’s co-create a better tech future in 2025
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🦜 Looking to chat with others in Responsible Tech after reading our newsletter? Join the conversations happening on our Slack (sign in | apply).
💪 We’ve built the world’s largest multistakeholder, multidisciplinary network in Responsible Tech and now we’re putting it to work. This powerful network allows us to tackle the thorniest tech & society through collective understanding, involvement, and action. Are you part of a foundation that wants to support our mission? Reach out directly to David Ryan Polgar.