Apply to our Mentorship Program, attend our livestreams, and help craft a better tech future

Plus our last Responsible Tech Mixer for the year, AMA with Dr. Joy Buolamwini, and much more

Nov 04, 2024

👋 Well hello there. We’re glad you’re part of All Tech Is Human, where we are building a better approach to tackling thorny tech & society issues. We do that through collective understanding, involvement, and action across our three key workstreams: community-building, education, and careers that directly leads to a stronger Responsible Tech ecosystem that is more capable to tackle complex issues.

🏃‍♀️ The wait is over for our Mentorship Program, which will accept applications to be mentored (until Dec 1) and to be a mentor (rolling basis) for our cohort starting Feb. 1, 2025. Over 1,600 people were on our waitlist to be notified, so interest is strong whether you are focused on Responsible AI, Trust & Safety, Public Interest Tech, or other areas related to the Responsible Tech ecosystem.

In today’s newsletter we detail numerous ways for you to get involved in the Responsible Tech movement, such as three upcoming livestreams, our Responsible Tech Mixer in NYC on Nov 14, upcoming panels in London and Paris, and information about our global Slack community that fosters connections and collaborations across 100 countries.

🎊 We’re also thrilled to welcome Deb Donig to our team, as a Siegel Research Fellow who will be focused on understanding and illuminating pathways into Responsible Tech. Now, onto the newsletter! 👇

🥳 Applications are now open for our popular Responsible Tech Mentorship Program!

The goal of the Responsible Tech Mentorship Program is to connect professionals at all stages with experienced leaders in tech ethics, governance, and responsible innovation. Participants will join a vibrant community through regular virtual networking events and peer learning opportunities. Whether you’re just starting your journey or advancing your responsible tech career, apply now to join a community of change makers who are building a better tech future.

All applications are open now until December 1 to join our mentorship cohort.

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👀 Questions? Read the Responsible Tech Mentorship FAQ

🙏 We are looking for dozens of mentors for the upcoming cohort. Would you like to help? If so, please apply here.

👏 We’re proud to welcome Deb Donig to the team

All Tech Is Human is excited to announce the appointment of Deb Donig as our incoming Siegel Family Endowment Research Fellow. In her role, she will build on an extensive network of Siegel Research Fellows who are working to understand and shape the impact of technology on society. Deb brings forth a deep understanding of the Responsible Tech landscape, particularly related to career pathways related to Public Interest Technology and tech ethics. For example, Deb was recently the lead Principal Investigator on the “Assessing the Future of the Ethical Technology Workforce" Cal Poly research team, funded by the National Science Foundation.

Deb is also the co-founder of the Cal Poly Ethical Technology Initiative and the host of “Technically Human,” a podcast where she talks with major thinkers, writers, and industry-leading technologists about the relationship between humans and the technologies we create.

We’re excited to welcome Deb to the All Tech Is Human team; be on the lookout for valuable insights and resources deriving from her role.

“All Tech Is Human uniquely understands the importance of listening to its constituencies and allowing them to lead the direction of the responsible tech movement, and working collaboratively with the community to achieve its vision. ATIH represents a movement to develop a vision of responsible technological production informed by people on the ground, one committed to thinking across sectors and with a commitment of intellectual diversity to create a robustly collaborative movement. ATIH has the energy and community spirit of activism combined with the rigor of scholarship and data-driven research that allows the organization to channel that energy into creating sustainable solutions and impactful interventions.” -Deb Donig

All Tech Is Human is proud to support Mozilla’s 2024 Rise25 Honorees who are co-creating a better tech future

This year, we’ve joined our friends at Mozilla to honor Responsible AI leaders in the second annual Rise25 Awards. Mozilla's 2024 Rise25 Awards honored 25 people working to create trustworthy AI across multiple disciplines. This year’s categories include Advocates, Artists, Builders, Change Agents, and Entrepreneurs.

You can learn more about Mozilla’s 2024 Rise25 Honorees and their impact here:

Join us this Thursday, November 7 for Algorithmic Bias Bounty #2: Counterterrorism with Humane Intelligence

Our friends at Humane Intelligence have launched Algorithmic Bias Bounty 2, the next in their series of challenges aimed at addressing algorithmic bias in AI models. Building on the success of the first challenge, which All Tech Is Human partnered on, this second Challenge is in partnership with Revontulet and is focused on counterterrorism in computer vision (CV) applications.

Centering on far-right extremist groups in Europe, the Nordic region, and beyond and the rise of AI-generated content, the goal is to train a CV model to understand the ways in which hateful image-propaganda can be disguised and manipulated to evade detection on social media platforms.

Join this livestream to dig into the latest Algorithmic Bias Bounty challenge!

📺 Related resource: last September, All Tech Is Human partnered with Humane Intelligence on Governing AI: Developing Methodologies for Public Feedback with four panels worth of videos you can watch.

🗓️ UPCOMING LIVESTREAM: How can we better understand the relationship between algorithms, influencers, and online crowds? Renée DiResta (Author, Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality) joins All Tech Is Human fellow Alexis Crews in the next installment of our Responsible Tech Author Series on Thursday, November 21, at 1:00 PM ET. RSVP now!

Thorny tech & society issue: How do we balance privacy and child safety in encrypted environments?

All Tech Is Human recently released a paper, Balancing Privacy and Child Safety in Encrypted Environments, that is designed to help us move past the impasse between privacy and child safety advocates in order to build a rights-respecting future with fewer harms against children. This paper represents a multi-month effort to gather diverse expert stakeholder perspectives and foster discussion, develop solutions, raise public awareness, and increase understanding of this unresolved challenge.

Looking for a summary? Download our Executive Summary.

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🗽 In NYC? Join us for our final Responsible Tech Mixer of the year

Do you want to mingle with 199 other people who deeply care about tackling thorny tech & society issues and co-creating a tech future aligned with the public interest? Well, that’s exactly what happens at our popular Responsible Tech Mixers.

Join us on Thurs, Nov 14th in NYC for our Responsible Tech Mixer + Author Series. There will be food, drink, and a fireside chat between Greg Epstein (author of the just-released Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation) and Julia Angwin (Founder & CEO of Proof News, NYT Contributing Opinion Writer).

Space is nearly full, so register today before we hit capacity. Also, show up early as the first fifty people in line will receive a free copy of Tech Agnostic. The gathering will be buzzing with excitement, as All Tech Is Human plays a role in Tech Agnostic with an entire chapter dedicated to our community-building work. The conversation will be filmed and (shared in a future newsletter. C-SPAN will also feature this talk in its Book TV program.

📰 Did you read Julia Angwin’s latest piece in the New York Times? Check out Bad News: We’ve Lost Control Of Our Social Media Feeds. Good News: Courts Are Noticing, now.

👋 What can you expect at our upcoming Responsible Tech Mixer?! A broad mix of passionate people coming together to tackle thorny tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest. Check out some of the photos from our mixer in August:

Join Dr. Joy Buolamwini and All Tech Is Human for an AMA celebrating the paperback release of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human In a World of Machines on November 19 at 6 PM ET 🎭

We’re honored to host Dr. Joy Buolamwini for a livestream celebrating the paperback release of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human In a World of Machines on November 19 at 6 PM ET.

To register, show proof of a paperback order of the book and submit your pre-order confirmation number on the event registration page. You’ll be emailed a link to the event upon confirmation of receipt.

📺 Dr. Joy Buolamwini joined Sinead Bovell (Founder, WAYE and Rise25 honoree) for a fireside chat to celebrate the release of Unmasking AI on October 31, 2023 with All Tech Is Human, the Algorithmic Justice League, Ford Foundation, Random House, and The Institute of Global Politics (IGP) at Columbia University. Watch now.

Join All Tech Is Human at the Paris Peace Forum’s official side event on the road to AI Summit 🇫🇷

The panel, titled "Cooperative AI Governance: Industry, Civil Society, Academia, and Government Working Together," will explore how different sectors are currently collaborating on AI governance and identify opportunities for improvement. Some key questions to be addressed include:

What is the current state of AI governance practices within French companies?
How is civil society partnering with industry to promote responsible AI development?
How can academic research be more effectively applied across sectors?
What role can citizen participation play in AI oversight, and how can we encourage it?

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Special thanks to Michelle Nie, Emma Cabalé, Eric Drury and Elise Farge di Maria for coordinating this gathering.

🔭 Discover how Trisha Prabhu is working to create a better tech future for youth in the Responsible Tech Guide

“So many young people wonder, ‘What can I do? What can I offer?’ In fact, we young people are uniquely positioned to build the digital world that we want to live in. So go for it! Make your impact.” - Trisha Prabhu (Founder & CEO, ReThink)

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. Learn from Trisha Prabhu and many others interviewed in this year’s guide, along with curated resources and helpful advice for being more involved in the Responsible Tech ecosystem.

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Help us shape the future of Responsible Tech careers with your valuable input

All Tech Is Human is excited to announce we are working on a new report to help early career candidates land their first roles in the space — but we need your help. Everyone’s Responsible Tech journey varies, and we need you to help provide the most up-to-date information on the ways to build your career in the growing ecosystem.

✍️ Can you help us empower the next generation of Responsible Tech professionals with critical knowledge to help them break into the space? Fill out this survey now!

🌆 Are you a Responsible Tech professional in NYC? Join our Nov 16th gathering for college students about Responsible Tech careers to pay your knowledge forward

On November 16, from 11 AM - 3 PM, All Tech Is Human and the NY Institute of Tech are hosting hundreds of college students at a space in Columbus Circle for an education and networking event. The event is focused on CUNY schools, and aims to diversify the pipeline into Responsible Tech careers. We have speakers from Google, Microsoft, Amazon and others to give short talks to the students about Responsible AI roles, Trust and Safety roles, Election Integrity roles, Public Interest Tech, Tech Policy, Youth and Wellbeing, and so on. But with so many students interested, we could use your help too.

In particular, we are looking for professionals to network and mingle with the students to answer questions, and/or if you would like to donate swag or gift cards as prizes for students. Questions? Ping Steven Kelts.

Fill Out the Interest Form

👀 In Case You Missed It…

📺 How can we balance anonymity and privacy? How can we revolutionize social media frameworks? Mark Weinstein (Author, Restoring Our Sanity Online: A Revolutionary Social Framework) joined David Ryan Polgar (Founder & President, All Tech Is Human) for a discussion about the ways we hold the keys to unlock a better future for social media. Watch now.

👩‍💻 Are you looking for a new career in Responsible Tech? We’ve curated 10 roles in Responsible AI, data science, software engineering, and project management to help guide your search. Discover roles and apply now.

🌎 How can we diversify the AI talent pipeline? Emily Reid (CEO, AI4All) and Amelia Barabander (Managing Director, Break Through Tech AI) joined Rebekah Tweed (Executive Director, All Tech Is Human) for a discussion that reveals existing barriers to entry across communities and critical go forward strategies. Watch now.

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