Election misinfo report, upcoming livestreams, SF gatherings, and a Responsible Tech Careers Summit!
Plus videos from our recent Safe Online gathering, previous livestreams, an upcoming Responsible Tech Mixer in NYC, and celebrating 100 countries in our Slack community
🥳 Well, hello there. Today we’re celebrating that we now have representation from 100 countries in our Slack community (sign in | apply). We’re continuously inspired by seeing individuals use our space to meet up across the globe, share important resources, and build a greater sense of community for a more cohesive Responsible Tech movement.
💡 The mission of our organization is to tackle thorny tech & society issues through collective understanding, involvement, and action. As you will read in today’s newsletter, there are numerous ways for you to participate either virtually or in-person. Here at All Tech Is Human, we don’t talk at you—we want to involve you. Our wide range of activities center on community-building, education, and careers.
👋 We’ve been preparing for a great week of gatherings in San Francisco, beginning with our Responsible Tech Mixer on October 9 with Fast Forward, a Responsible AI gathering and panel conversation on October 10, and the Public Interest Tech Summit and Career Fair on October 11 at Stanford University!
🎊We’re also excited to announce our next Responsible Tech Mixer in NYC, which is happening November 14th and will feature a talk with Greg Epstein, author of the upcoming Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation. Our organization is the subject for an entire chapter, highlighting our unique community-building focus.
👀 In this week’s edition, you can learn about our upcoming Responsible Tech University Network (getting internships) livestream and Mozilla 2024 Rise25 Honoree livestream (AI Systems), learn key insights from our Ensuring a Safe Online Environment for Youth collaboration with Safe Online, and discover strategies to prevent election misinformation and violence.
Now, onto the newsletter! 👇
🗽NYC: Join us for a Responsible Tech Mixer & Tech Agnostic Book Celebration on Nov 14!
Do you care about tackling thorny tech & society issues? Do you want to meet others that deeply care about co-creating a better tech future?
If so, you'll want to participate in All Tech Is Human's popular Responsible Tech Mixer & Author Series! For our upcoming gathering on November 14th, we will have a fireside chat with Greg Epstein, author of the upcoming Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation.
📖All Tech Is Human plays a starring role in Tech Agnostic, as it is the subject for an entire chapter. Author Greg Epstein also wrote about All Tech Is Human's unique community-building in this MIT Technology Review article.
Come join 199 other people who deeply care about co-creating a better tech future. There will be food, drinks, and a great mix of people from all different backgrounds. Oh, and the first 50 people who show up will receive a free copy of Tech Agnostic!
This Thursday: Learn How to Get the Right Internship in Responsible Tech
How can you earn the right internship in Responsible Tech? Join Steven Kelts (Director, Responsible Tech University Network) in conversation with Kriti Garg (Junior at Princeton University), Nat Welsh (Senior, Wesleyan University), Katie Bernard (CS and Creative Writing Senior at Colby College), Nicole Cuneo (PhD Candidate at Princeton University), and Caragh Aylett-Bullock (Coordinator at Amnesty Tech) for an interactive conversation about best practices and strategies about discovering the perfect fit for you.
📆 Thursday, October 10
🕐 1:00 PM ET
📺 Live via LinkedIn - register below!
👋RELATED EVENT: For college students interested in Responsible Tech Careers, please join us in NYC on Nov 16th at New York Tech for an event with our Responsible Tech University Network! REGISTER HERE
🗓️NEXT WEEK’S LIVESTREAM: How can we evaluate the functionality of AI systems? Join Mozilla’s 2024 Rise25 Honoree Stella Biderman (Executive Director, EleutherAI) for a discussion focused on evaluation, particularly scientific evaluation, of AI systems and their capabilities in conversation with Dr. Savannah Thais (Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University; Affiliate, All Tech Is Human) on Thursday, October 17 at 1 PM ET. RSVP now.
🤔Did you know that All Tech Is Human has partnered with Mozilla to help celebrate Rise25 honorees? Learn more here.
Preventing Election Misinformation and Violence: A Post-Debate Fact-Check and Thematic Analysis
Alexis Crews (Senior Fellow for Information Integrity) shares her latest report, Debunking the Divide: A Post-Debate Analysis on Misinformation, Fear, and Election Integrity. It takes a deep dive into key claims from the 2024 presidential debate, exposing how misinformation and fear-based rhetoric are shaping public discourse. This report is an essential resource for anyone working to uphold election integrity, with fact-checking and detailed analysis designed to cut through the noise. You can read the full blog post and access the report here. ICYMI, Alexis hosted two fireside chats on September 12th with political experts focused on Demystifying the Conversation on Technology and Elections
Ensuring a Safe Online Environment for Youth
All Tech Is Human partnered with Safe Online for Ensuring a Safe Online Environment for Youth, on Tuesday, September 17th in NYC. This special gathering was a fringe event for the UN’s Summit for the Future and had participants from across civil society, government, industry, and academia.
Ensuring a Safe Online Environment for Youth featured a fireside chat with Julie Inman Grant (eSafety Commissioner of Australia) and Marija Manojlovic (Executive Director of Safe Online) and a panel discussion with Julie Cordua (CEO of Thorn), Vaishnavi J. (Founder & Principal of Vyanams, former head of child safety at Meta), Anne Collier (Executive Director of The Net Safety Collaborative), and Luke Drago (Senior Advisor to Encode Justice). There were also welcome remarks by Marija Manojlovic, Dr. Renata Dwan (Senior Global Digital Compact Advisory), and All Tech Is Human’s David Ryan Polgar.
Fireside Chat: Julie Inman Grant on Youth Online Safety
Julie Inman Grant (eSafety Commissioner of Australia) joined Marija Manojlovic (Executive Director of Safe Online) for a fireside chat about strategies for protecting youth online. Manojlovic and Grant discuss what “Safety by Design” means and how it can be implemented in digital products designed for youth, how Basic Online Safety Expectations are enforced as it pertains to youth safety online, the potential impacts of proposed social media bans in youth under 16 in Australia, and strategies for parents to engage with their children’s online lives to promote safety and well-being.
📜RELATED RESOURCES: Thorn and All Tech Is Human released Safety by Design for Generative AI: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse earlier this year. And be on the lookout for a new paper we are releasing in our next newsletter…
Panel Discussion: Ensuring a Safe Online Experience for Youth
Julie Cordua (CEO, Thorn), Anne Collier (Executive Director, The Net Safety Collaborative), Vaishnavi J. (Founder and Principal, Vyanams Strategies), Luke Drago (Senior Advisor, Encode Justice), and moderated by Theodora Skeadas (CEO, Tech Policy Consulting) discuss the primary challenges and harms youth encounter on social media platforms, the ways AI influences and exacerbates online harms for youth, how Trust & Safety teams protect youth and the effectiveness of their work, and strategies for different stakeholders, including parents, companies, and regulators, to come together to promote a safer digital environment for youth.
🗓️Save The Date: All Tech Is Human to host a Responsible Tech Careers Summit at CUNY in March 2025!
On March 18, 2025, All Tech Is Human will be hosting its first-ever Responsible Tech Careers Summit. This gathering will be focused on Responsible Tech career pathways across Responsible AI, Trust & Safety, and Public Interest Technology. Here is what we are currently looking for:
Panelists to discuss their roles in either Responsible AI, Trust & Safety, or Public Interest Technology
A values-aligned sponsor to help ensure this gathering is widely accessible and also so we can develop post-summit resources for the entire community
Ideas you may have to make the Responsible Tech Careers Summit successful!
Would you like to be involved? Please fill out this short form or reach out directly to Ali Feldhausen from our team.
🤔Did you know that All Tech Is Human’s runs a popular Responsible Tech Job Board and has a Responsible Tech Talent Pool of over 6k? Numerous individuals also find roles for our jobs channel in our large Slack community (sign in | apply). We are building a better tech future by altering the makeup of those involved…
👀 In Case You Missed It…
📜 Our new Responsible Tech Guide has been downloaded more than 1,000 times in 55 countries. Did you read it yet?
🎙️ Sandra Khalil (Associate Director, All Tech Is Human) will be speaking at the Family Online Safety Institute's state briefing on New York's approach to online safety on Thursday, October 10 at Civic Hall! Register Now!
🤝 This Friday at 11am, All Tech Is Human (ATIH) is coming to Stanford University to support their annual Public Interest Technology Summit put on in collaboration with Public Interest Technology Lab at Stanford University and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society. All ATIH members are welcome, so please sign up here.
🧠 David Ryan Polgar (Founder, All Tech Is Human) delivered a talk, Our Tech Future Is up to Us, at Brain Bar in Budapest. Polgar discusses the motivation, environment, and mindset required to co-create a better tech future aligned with human values. Watch Now!
🌎 Our recent Responsible Tech Summit featured world-class speakers across multiple disciplines working to tackle wicked Tech & Society issues. Watch panels recorded live from our Summit about Responsible AI, The Future of Tech Policy, Promoting Global, Multistakeholder Collaboration, and Strategies to Protect Academic and Civil Society Research.
📃Applications to be a mentor in our Responsible Tech Mentorship Program are now open! Do you work in Responsible Tech or social impact tech? Are you passionate about giving back and supporting people who are trying to break into or move up in your field? Apply to be a mentor now! (Applications to be mentored open Nov 1)
📺 How can we shape the future of AI, technology, and democracy? Mozilla’s 2024 Rise25 Honorees Gemma Galdon Clavell, Ph.D. (CEO & Founder, Eticas) and Cansu Canca, Ph.D. joined Rebekah Tweed (Executive Director, All Tech Is Human) for a livestream exploring how we can create a tech future that empowers humans. Watch now.
👏Individuals in our Slack community continue to meet up across the globe! Check out this independently organized casual meetup in Philadelphia on Oct 17.
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