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👋 Well hello there. We’re thrilled that so many new people are joining the All Tech Is Human community, where we come together to tackle thorny tech & society issues a co-create a better tech future. We do this through collective understanding, involvement, and action through our community-building, educational resources, and career-related activities. It’s a whole-of-Responsible-Tech-ecosystem approach.
📰In today’s newsletter you will be able to join our upcoming livestream with Renee DiResta, apply to our Responsible Tech Mentorship Program, watch a fireside chat from our recent gathering in NYC, and much more. We also continue to post daily through LinkedIn, just joined Bluesky, and can always be found in our Slack community (sign in | apply) which has grown to over 10k members across 102 countries.
Now, onto the newsletter! 👇
🥳A capacity crowd of 200 people came together for our Responsible Tech Mixer in NYC
While it can sometimes feel like you are the only one who deeply cares about the social impacts of technology, there are tens of thousands of individuals deeply committed to the Responsible Tech movement. Last Thursday in NYC, a packed house of 200 individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds came together to share knowledge, learn from each other, and spark moments of collaboration.
This was our 15th in-person gathering of 2024, held across NYC, SF, DC, and London.
🤔Where should we have official All Tech Is Human gatherings in 2025? Reach out to us with your suggestions!
Our Responsible Tech Mixer + Author Series was proud to feature a fireside chat between Greg Epstein (Author, Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation) and Julia Angwin (CEO & Founder, Proof News, New York Times Contributing Opinion Writer) for a fireside chat to discuss the ways the beliefs, practices, and values of Big Tech companies and leaders can mirror those of religions. Greg explores longtermism, tech addiction, surveillance, and, ultimately, why he believes an agnostic approach to technology is the best way forward.
📖While reading Tech Agnostic, you will notice that All Tech Is Human is the focus of an entire chapter of the book—highlighting our unique convening power.
📸 Scenes from our Responsible Tech Mixer
📷 View more photos from the evening.
✍️Applications for our popular Responsible Tech Mentorship Program are due December 1
All Tech Is Human is committed to supporting the Responsible Tech ecosystem and uplifting the next generation. Since 2021, over 1k mentees have benefited from our free program where individuals are matched up with topic-specific mentors. Participation has now spanned fifty countries.
We are currently accepting applications for both mentees and mentors to take part in this invaluable experience. Applications are due by December 1st, with the program starting in February 2025.
📓Read a write-up about our Responsible Tech Mentorship Program by Sarah Welsh (Program Director, Mentorships, and Working Groups)
Join our livestream on the Decay of the Information Ecosystem and its Implications with special guest Renée DiResta
Join us Thursday, November 21 at 1pm ET for a livestream with Renee DiResta (Author, Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality), moderated by Alexis Crews (Senior Fellow at ATIH, Information Integrity). This chat will comprehensively examine foreign interference and information warfare in the 2024 U.S. election. Topics will range from foreign influence tactics and the lessons the U.S. can draw from other democracies, to the role of technology in amplifying disinformation and potential risks in its misuse by adversarial actors.
📜RELATED ARTICLE: Alexis Crews, moderator for Thursday’s livestream, recently wrote a thought-provoking piece, Why We Should Stop Blaming Technology for the Erosion of Democracy. In an era where technology often takes the blame for democratic challenges, it's essential to dig deeper. Alexis explores why misinformation and tech platforms aren't the sole culprits behind the erosion of democracy in her latest piece. She highlights the complex interplay of entrenched political dynamics, the psychological nuances of misinformation, and the urgent need for robust regulatory frameworks.
Alexis discusses actionable steps for tech companies, policymakers, and non-partisan stakeholders to strengthen election integrity and protect our democratic values.
👀 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.
🌐 Join the livestream for Project Liberty’s Summit on the Future of the Internet! All Tech Is Human is a proud partner for this summit, and we have a livestream link where you can join in. This is a two-day event on Nov 21-22 in Washington, DC featuring a global, multidisciplinary speaker lineup including Baroness Joanna Shields, Sinead Bovell, Melissa Fleming, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, All Tech Is Human’s David Ryan Polgar, and many more. Register to join via livestream now.
👩💻How can we reshape social media for the public good? All Tech Is Human is happy to partner with the Data Science Institute and Institute of Global Politics at Columbia University to organize a panel featuring Eli Pariser (Co-Director, New_ Public) and Audrey Tang (Former Minister of Digital Affairs, Government of Taiwan) in conversation with Camille François (Associate Professor of Practice of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University) on November 25 at 6:00 PM at The Forum at Columbia University. Register now.
📺 What are strategies to diversify the AI talent pipeline? Emily Reid (CEO of AI4ALL), Amelia Barabander (Managing Director of Break Through Tech AI) and moderator Rebekah Tweed (Executive Director, All Tech Is Human) discuss. Watch now.
👏We’re continuing to celebrate Mozilla’s Rise25 honorees, showcasing some of the changemakers who are inspiring the next generation. In today’s newsletter we are featuring a profile interview with Kathleen Siminyu, researcher at the DAIR Institute.
✍️All Tech Is Human has a short survey to help the next generation better understanding how to break into the Responsible Tech ecosystem. We’d love your help! This will be incorporated into a report for early career individuals coming out in 2025.
📌We continue to expand location-specific channels to our growing Slack community (sign in | apply), recently adding Houston and Amsterdam.
🤔How do we balance privacy and child safety in encrypted environments? That is an incredibly thorny area, which is why we recently released a paper (Balancing Privacy and Child Safety in Encrypted Environments) to surface the values, tensions, tradeoffs, and best practices while offering a pathway forward.
👋Have you read our Responsible Tech Guide yet? We poured a lot of energy into our most recent version, which provides an overview of the people, organizations, and ideas of the Responsible Tech ecosystem. You can read it here.
🌏ATIH Around the World
While All Tech Is Human is based in NYC, we have affiliates, mentors, and community members in every corner of the globe doing impactful work! Our organization is currently mapping out our 2025 projects and gatherings, so please reach out our way with your ideas.
LONDON—All Tech Is Human was honored to be a partner with Marketplace Risk for their recent Global Summit in London, November 13- 14. Sandra Khalil from our team put together a stellar panel, featured above. The panelists delved into the professionalization of the trust and safety field, and the growing role of civil society in shaping the next generation of professionals in the space.
PARIS—On November 12, All Tech Is Human community members Michelle Nie, Emma Cabalé, Eric Drury, and Elise Farge di Maria, hosted a panel in partnership with Sciences Po’s PSIA Tech & Global Affairs Innovation Hub as part of their side event for the Paris Peace Forum and the AI Action Summit.
The panel, titled “Cooperative AI Governance: Building Responsible AI Across Sectors,” moderated by Eric Drury (Director at Forthco.io), featured panelists Nicolas Miailhe (Founder & CEO of PRISM Eval and Founder & Chair of the Board of The Future Society), Tom David (Co-Founder of the GPAI Policy Lab), Caroline Lancelot Miltgen (Professor at Audencia), and Florian Cafiero (Fellow for Artificial Intelligence at Paris Sciences et Lettres University). READ THE WRITE-UP.
BUDAPEST—David Ryan Polgar, Founder & President of All Tech Is Human, spoke recently in Budapest (at Brain Bar) about the importance of building a global Responsible Tech ecosystem.
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