Livestreams, summits, and numerous ways for you to get involved!
Plus we are hiring a new Community Manager!
👋 Welcome back to your one-stop source for Responsible Tech! As September approaches we’re excited to share with you a newsletter full of our upcoming gatherings and resources, including our upcoming Responsible Tech Summit: Ensuring Our Tech Future Is Aligned With Democracy, our highly-curated, youth-focused gathering on September 17 in NYC with Safe Online, continuing to our September 20 workshop AI Assessments, Audits, and Public Oversight Methods workshop in NYC, and a San Francisco mixer in and Responsible AI panel on October 10. All of our September gatherings are near capacity, so apply now if you are interested.
📅 Join us TODAY at 1pm ET for a livestream as some of our team will be chatting about a new Community Manager role we are hiring for! Also, be on the lookout for our new Responsible Tech Guide that will be released on September 12. Would you like to help us with the release? Join our volunteer cohort here.
📚Are you heading out for Labor Day Weekend? Maybe you’re looking for a book to supercharge your weekend? It’s not too late to dive into our Responsible Tech Summer Reading List! Check out books by Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Cory Doctorow, Jennifer Pahlka, Kashmir Hill, Dr. Joy Buolamwini, Dr. Nicol Turner Lee, and more! And be on the lookout for many of these authors in previous All Tech Is Human fireside chats and livestreams, along with upcoming ones.
Now, onto the newsletter 👇
Apply now to join us For Ensuring a Safe Online Experience for Youth on Sept. 17 in New York City
We’re partnering with Safe Online to bring together 100 leaders across civil society, government, industry, and academia to Ensuring a Safe Online Environment for Youth on Tuesday, September 17th from 6:00 to 8:30 PM in New York City. This is also a fringe event for the UN's Summit for the Future.
Ensuring a Safe Online Environment for Youth will feature a fireside chat featuring Julie Inman Grant (eSafety Commissioner of Australia) in conversation with Marija Manojlovic and a panel conversation featuring Julie Cordua (CEO, Thorn), Anne Collier (Executive Director, The Net Safety Collaborative), Vaishnavi J (Founder and Principal, Vyanams Strategies, former head of youth safety at Meta), Luke Drago (Senior Advisor to Encode Justice), and moderated by Theodora Skeadas (CEO, Tech Policy Consulting).
Who will be there?! Registered attendees include people from 5Rights, Action Against Child Sexual Abuse Initiative, Center for Countering Digital Hate, Center for Digital Thriving at Harvard Graduate School of Education, ChildFund Alliance, Clinic to End Tech Abuse @ Cornell, Common Sense Media, Design it for Us, Fairplay, Meta, National Center for Youth Law, Naver Z, NCMEC, Omidyar Network, Pinterest, Safe Online, Tech Coalition, Thorn, TikTok, UN, UNICEF, USAID, World Economic Forum, World Wide Web Foundation, Yahoo, and more.
There is no charge to attend this gathering if your application is accepted; however, space is incredibly limited and only a number of seats remain. Apply now before we are completely full. Have a question? Email us.
Are you passionate about cultivating community? Do you have experience producing events? We’re looking for a Community Manager to join our team!
We're looking for a NYC-based Community Manager who is passionate about building, supporting, and nurturing communities online and in person. This individual will create engagement opportunities that serve All Tech Is Human’s efforts building the world’s largest network in Responsible Tech. This powerful network allows us to tackle thorny tech & society issues while moving at the speed of tech. We are powered by community engagement and collective intelligence, so this is a key role.
Some of the projects will include…
Managing and growing our global Slack community featuring more than 10,000 people across almost 100 countries
Producing acclaimed global gatherings that serve as the connective tissue of the Responsible Tech movement in cities including New York City, San Francisco, Washington DC, London, and more.
Developing synergies across our programming and network of more than 42,000 people. Learn more about our growing network here.
If you have relevant experience, we want to hear from you! We’re accepting applications for this role through Friday, Sept. 13.
📺 Do you want to learn more? Join us for a livestream dedicated to discussing this role and All Tech Is Human’s work culture on Thursday, August 29, at 1:00 PM ET
You’ll hear from David Ryan Polgar (Founder & President, All Tech Is Human), Rebekah Tweed (Executive Director, All Tech Is Human), Sandra Khalil (Associate Director, All Tech Is Human), and Ali Feldhausen (Director, Tekalo and Careers, All Tech Is Human) and have the opportunity to ask questions about the position!
🤔 Did you miss today’s livestream? Just click this link to watch the video recording.
🙏We need your help to make this year’s Responsible Tech Guide the most impactful publication yet!
The Responsible Tech Guide is our flagship resource, designed to offer insight and inspiration for individuals to get more involved in the Responsible Tech ecosystem. The Responsible Tech Guide helps illuminate the ecosystem by offering an overview of the people, organizations, and ideas of the Responsible Tech movement.
To date, The Responsible Tech Guide has empowered thousands of people with a desire to create a better tech future. Now we need your help to empower thousands more. Our goal is to make this year’s Responsible Tech Guide our most impactful publication yet, aiming for over 1k downloads in the first 10 days of release.
To achieve this, we’re building a cohort of enthusiastic volunteers. If you’re interested in helping us spread the word about our high-impact publication, fill out the application below to get started and we’ll be in touch with how you can help us co-create a better tech future!
📚 Check Out 30 Books Empowering the Responsible Tech Movement
Last month, we published our annual Responsible Tech Summer Reading List. The list features a curated list of more than 30 books that are educating, inspiring, and informing the growing Responsible Tech Movement. Here are a few select recommendations from All Tech Is Human’s staff as you embark on your weekend.
Cory Doctorow’s The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation is a deep-dive into how interoperability can solve our most urgent tech issues. Doctorow offers critical in-depth analysis, history, and solutions for how we can retrieve the best parts of the early Internet to create an even better tech future. You can watch our livestream with Doctorow and purchase the book now. - Josh Chapdelaine
Want to read a smart perspective on AI that isn’t all doom and gloom? In The AI Mirror, Shannon Vallor asks us to speculate on AI’s yet unrealized potential to promote human flourishing. Great for anyone wanting to imagine new possibilities from our technologies rather than just be critical of its faults (which of course reflect our own). - Sarah Welsh
📺 How Can We Mitigate AI Risks?
While AI systems can power immense innovation, without proper design, policies, and governance, they also have the power to do great harm. The downside risks range from algorithmic bias and labor force disruption to supercharging deceptive content and disinformation. While there is no one solution for mitigating all AI risks, there is a growing ecosystem of technologies, strategies, and policies to reduce risks and bolster resilience.
Maggie Munts (Director of Public Affairs and Impact, Truepic), Dr. Hany Farid (Professor, University of California, Berkeley), and Dr. Rebecca Portnoff (Vice President, Data Science, Thorn) joined Sandra Khalil (Associate Director, All Tech Is Human) for an in-depth discussion of the solutions landscape, both technical and non-technical, for mitigating AI risks and bridging trust deficits in the age of AI.
Listen now and join the conversation on our global Slack community!
In Case You Missed It…
🌆 An independently organized mixer is happening tonight in Brooklyn, which was organized through our large Slack community. While this gathering is currently at capacity you can add your name to the wait list. If you want to be the first to learn about upcoming independently organized gatherings you can apply to join our global Slack community including more than 10,000 people across almost 100 countries.
💬All Tech Is Human’s Sandra Khalil is moderating a panel, Cultivating the Next Generation of Trust and Safety Leaders, at Marketplace Risk’s upcoming NYC summit on September 16 and 17. She’ll be joined by Alexis Crews (Senior Fellow of Information Integrity at All Tech Is Human), affiliate and advisor Theodora Skeadas, and Leah Ferentinos (Advisory Risk Manager, KPMG US).
🌎All Tech Is Human affiliate Talita Pessoa will be a panelist at the upcoming Resilient Youth for a Healthy Information Ecosystem in Latin America, organized by the CREDIBLE project in Medellín, Colombia. She will be primarily be focusing on what it means to be a digital citizen for youth, focusing on different geographical and socioeconomic contexts, as well on the Internet’s potential for youth empowerment and agency, but also the need to engage critically and cautiously in online spaces.
👋Outside of our job posting channel and our six-month mentorship program, we now have a Slack channel for job advice and support (sign in | apply). As always, check out our Responsible Tech Job Board and join our talent pool.
🎊All Tech Is Human is a partner with Mozilla for its Rise25 awards, which highlights inspiring advocates, artists, builders, change agents, and entrepreneurs. You’ll see some Rise25 award winners at our upcoming Responsible Tech Summit, in our upcoming Responsible Tech Guide, upcoming livestreams, and more!
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