Generative AI! Responsible Tech careers! Upcoming livestreams, mixers, and summits.
Plus All Tech Is Human partners with Consumer Reports & Kapor Center for our next Responsible Tech Mixer + Interview series in NYC, pictures from our London summit, and more!
🗣️Everyone is talking about generative AI; but what is just hype? What are the potential harms? And what is the role of the Responsible Tech community to ensure this technology is aligned with the public interest?!
This is the second livestream in our new series on Generative AI: Hype, Harms, and the Responsible Tech Community. We will be joined by special guests Brandeis Marshall and Reid Blackman, in conversation with All Tech Is Human's Rebekah Tweed! Our first livestream in this series featured Dr. Rumman Chowhury and Elizabeth Renieris.
Join us as we catch up on what’s new in Generative AI and continue to make sense of a rapidly evolving set of issues, emerging risks, and potential harms.
Dr. Brandeis Marshall is the author of Data Conscience: Algorithmic Siege on our Humanity, which delivers an incisive and eye-opening discussion of how to fix tech’s dominant philosophy of “move fast and break things” with a renewed focus on equity and oppression. The book explores how to address discrimination in the digital data space with several known algorithms, including social network analysis, linear regression and sentiment analysis.
Reid Blackman, PhD is the author of Ethical Machines (Harvard Business Review Press), creator and host of the podcast “Ethical Machines,” and Founder and CEO of Virtue, a digital ethical risk consultancy. He is also an advisor to the Canadian government on their federal AI regulations, was a founding member of EY’s AI Advisory Board, and a Senior Advisor to the Deloitte AI Institute. His work, which includes advising and speaking to organizations including AWS, US Bank, the FBI, NASA, and the World Economic Forum, has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, and Forbes. His written work appears in The Harvard Business Review and The New York Times.
🥳250 people across civil society, government, industry, and academia gathered in London for our first summit outside of the US!
Talking about reducing the harms of technology while the Tower of London and the London Tower Bridge hits home the historical importance of the work we are all doing in the Responsible Tech movement. Which way do we want history to bend?
Our team is still buzzing from our first summit held in London last Tuesday at The Shard, where we brought 250 individuals across different backgrounds and perspectives together to learn from each other, share resources, and find areas of collaboration. While the gathering was at capacity, we are also busy sifting through the overwhelming amount of interest (670 requests for tickets) and already mapping out our return to London (and elsewhere in Europe). Do you have an idea for us? Reach out to Josh Chapdelaine from our team.
This summit, which featured two panels (content moderation, tech policy) and a significant amount of networking to get to know each other, was made possible with the support and collaboration of Crisp, a Kroll business.
Read about the speakers, the orgs and companies in attendance, and testimonials from attendees here.
“Fantastic panels, interdisciplinary networking opportunities, and beautiful views of London… what more could you ask for? All Tech Is Human’s ‘Better Tech Summit’ was the perfect first gathering for London and truly an unforgettable experience.” -Carissa Anderson, Communications Student: University of New York in Prague
“A brilliant opportunity for like-minded individuals from industry, government and civil society to connect and exchange ideas. We're all tackling the same problem from different angles, but our goal is ultimately the same.” -Jessica Marcus, Online Safety Policy Manager at Ofcom
👋Join us TODAY at 1pm ET for our livestream on Responsible Tech Careers!
Join us later today, Tuesday, April 25th at 1pm EDT for a Responsible Tech Careers livestream, where you'll hear from the All Tech Is Human team, along with special guest hiring managers at Amnesty Tech, DoubleVerify, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, and Topos Institute about current opportunities and building your career in Responsible Tech!
You'll also have a chance to meet our newest program manager in Responsible Tech careers, Sarah Welsh, along with the newly-hired Elisa Fox.
All Tech Is Human has a significant amount of resources to help you grow your career focused on tackling wicked tech & society issues. Read our Responsible Tech Guide and our new Welcome to the Responsible Tech Movement primer; check our our Responsible Tech Job Board to find roles in Responsible AI, Trust & Safety, Public Interest Tech, Tech & Democracy, and Youth/Tech/Wellbeing; apply for our mentorship program, and join our growing Responsible Tech Talent Pool. You can find all of our projects and links here.
🎉We are thrilled to announce our next Responsible Tech Mixer, celebrating and discussing the upcoming short film series BAD INPUT!
Our non-profit recently started a monthly Responsible Tech Mixer + Interview Series that takes place in NYC that brings together 200 people. On Wednesday of this week, we are welcoming special guest Douglas Rushkoff and last month we celebrated the release of Meredith Broussard’s More Than a Glitch with a book release and fireside chat. Our new series has been quite popular, so reserve you spot before they fill up.
So if you are in the NYC area or visiting, come to this screening of BAD INPUT, Consumer Reports' upcoming short films on the biases in algorithms and datasets that result in unfair practices towards communities of color, often without them knowing. This film series, along with our mixer, is in partnership with Kapor Foundation.
📅This upcoming gathering will not only feature a screening and ample time for getting to know each other, but will also include a panel conversation. We will be welcoming to the stage Crystal Grant (ACLU; featured in BAD INPUT), Lili Gangas (Kapor Center), and moderator Brian Vines (Consumer Reports). Watch the trailer below!
And don’t worry…while we show a lot of love to our home of NYC, we are also actively exploring mixers in SF, DC, London, and beyond. Do you have a suggestion for us? Reach out to Josh.
👋Join us for our next Digital Playground, a monthly series in partnership between New_ Public and All Tech Is Human!
Anil Dash likes to say, “Don’t trust anyone who can’t throw a good party.” That goes for our social platforms as well. For this Digital Playground, we will go back to the basics of how we design for digital communities to thrive, and experiment with our own ideas.
Honored by the Webby Awards with its lifetime achievement award in 2022, Anil is recognized as a leading advocate for more humane, inclusive, and ethical technology through his work as an entrepreneur, activist, and writer. Anil is the founder of Glitch, the friendly developer community where coders have collaborated to create and share millions of web apps.
🏋️All Tech Is Human is growing; helping our mission to strengthen the Responsible Tech ecosystem so we can tackle wicked tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest!
Our non-profit is thrilled to welcome Sarah Welsh to the team! Sarah has a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin where she researched responsible technology and reputation management. She has nearly 10 years experience running educational projects and programs in higher ed—including the A BETTER TECH Convention and Career Fair she produced with NYU [a public interest technology career fair, supported by the Public Interest Technology University Network].
More recently, she has been working with startups in responsible tech on growth marketing and communications. As a former educator, she brings a strong educational focus to the work she does, whether it’s mentoring colleagues who are early in their careers, or helping engineers translate technical initiatives for non-specialist audiences. She’s thrilled to join the ATIH team and continue building the responsible technology talent pipeline!
Sarah will be working directly with Rebekah Tweed and Elisa Fox (whose recently hiring we announced last newsletter).
💡Diversifying the types of individuals involved in how technologies are designed, developed, and deployed is one of the three major observations our organization has had after interacting with thousands of individuals since our founding in 2018. The other two are the need to speed up society’s consideration of the social impacts of technology, and creating a more cohesive multistakeholder network that has a hub of knowledge. You can watch a video on on our three-prong approach here, and read about our mission here.
We moved at the speed of tech here at All Tech Is Human; you can always find all of our projects and links here, along with our ten principles here.
Later today we will be holding a roundtable conversation in NYC alongside Responsible Innovation Labs to explore what a cross-sector approach to Responsible AI would look like. And tomorrow we will be holding our Responsible Tech Mixer + Special Guest Douglas Rushkoff in-person in NYC.
📢We also recently announced that we are partnering with the Canadian Consulate to hold a Responsible Tech Summit in NYC in September, and are partnering with the Australian Embassy in DC to hold the Responsible Tech Summit: A Better Future for Youth on October 25th. We are actively looking for partners for these two gatherings.
Our Slack community continues to grow, as we now have over 5k members from across 64 countries. We have been adding new location-specific channels such as London, our European community, Toronto, and Raleigh-Durham. [Already a member, sign in here.]
📚Recently we put out our Responsible Tech Spring Reading List, along with launching our Knowledge Hubs for the topic areas of Responsible AI, Trust & Safety, Tech & Democracy, Public Interest Technology, and Youth/Tech/Wellbeing.
In the past few months, we have released our Tech & Democracy report along with AI & Human Rights.
We also recently had a livestream on Responsible Tech Fellowships & Internships that you can watch here, along with our Welcome to the Responsible Tech Movement primer that you can read below!
😎 Cool happenings in Responsible Tech
You know what we like to do here at All Tech Is Human? We like to connect the people, organizations, and ideas of the Responsible Tech movement! We are committed to strengthening the overall ecosystem, so we play a major role as a connective tissue to make a stronger movement.
There are always incredible new orgs being launched, books being released, research coming out, toolkits being made, and more. Our aim is to curate these discoveries for the community, so we can benefit from each other’s work. There is also a lot to celebrate within the Responsible Tech community; for example, Omer Aziz who recently spoke at our Tech & Democracy: A Better Tech Future Summit in NYC at the Canadian Consulate just released Brown Boy—an uncompromising interrogation of identity, family, religion, race, and class.
Do you have something to add? Ping Sandra Khalil from our team.
Our org also runs a Responsible Tech Community Calendar; submit directly for consideration.
“Hello to ATIH’s network! We are Maddie and Nicola, the Project Manager and Research Director of the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET), a special project of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) and the academic research arm of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT). We are delighted to invite you to our third annual conference on 24-25 May 2023 at King’s College London. Our conference will be hybrid with the opportunity to attend both in person and online. The GNET Conference will explore the complex and evolving relationship between terrorism, violent extremism, and technology.
Registration and attendance is free. Click here for the full conference programme and registration details. Don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions at mail@gnet-research.org” -Maddie Cannon
“Dear fellow collaborators! Achieving our shared goal of a tech future in the service of the public interest requires us to define a clear vision of what this can or should mean. This task becomes especially difficult with AI-based applications. Together with my team from the AI & Society Lab at the Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society, we want to make sense of how to create a fundamental understanding for public interest AI and stimulate a critical exchange with politics, science and civil society. In that spirit, we recently launched the interface publicinterest.ai, consisting of a survey-based project map, a stakeholder-index, and valuable knowledge we already gathered on the topic. You can contribute to and become part of our mission by adding your PIAI-project to the map here. Please also spread the interface to other projects you know to co-create a diverse, intercultural overview on the many essential perspectives that need to be included. For any questions, feel free to reach out to piai@hiig.de.”-Dr. Theresa Züger
“Hi all! Joe from Project Liberty here. On Wednesday, April 26, we will be hosting a casual Pop-Up conversation with Consumer Reports about your data and rights.Hosted by Ginny Fahs, Head of Product R&D at CR’s Innovation Lab, the event will focus on the advent of data rights in the US, the role of a designated agent to help consumers use them, and some of the technologies and policy proposals CR is developing to help cement the right to privacy for all consumers. We’ll also share with you CR’s Permission Slip, a mobile app that makes it easy to take control of your personal data. April 26 at 12pm ET / 6pm CET / 9am PT - Your Data, Your Rights with Consumer Report's Digital Lab (now Innovation Lab). To RSVP and be added to the calendar invite, please send me a Slack message or email me at joe.tropeano@projectliberty.io!
Also…How has social media shaped your life? Your work and your institution? Society at-large? Where is it heading? And, most importantly, what can we do about it?
I thought All Tech Is Human's community might be intrigued by these questions and I'd love to invite you to discuss them together as Project Liberty and its partner HxA host an interactive evening event on May 3rd in NYC. Reckoning with Social Media
Jonathan Haidt with Christine Rosen, Sinead Bovell, and Aviv Ovadya. Register here”-Joe Tropeano
“Hey friends, Prosocial Design Network is hosting a great (free!) event on Thursday this week to help foster collaboration between startups and folks in the research community to make our technology more prosocial and ethical.Small companies usually lack a large staff of researchers and can benefit from collaborations with academic researchers. Researchers can learn a lot by seeing how different design approaches impact real people’s experience online. As the large platforms have become less and less open to collaboration with outside researchers, there’s a huge learning opportunity on both sides to explore partnerships. Find out more and join us here https://lu.ma/pdn-collabs.” -Laure X. Cast
☕No rest for the wicked (tech & society issues).
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