Responsible Tech Spring Reading List, Youth-focused summit in DC, livestream this week and more!
Plus three key observations we've had from interacting with thousands of people building the Responsible Tech movement, and video from our recent gathering with Meredith Broussard.
📚We’re celebrating the launch of our “Spring Into” Responsible Tech Reading List!
We know you like to read. So do we. Our newsletters are so packed with information and announcements, they probably qualify as 12 chapters of a James Patterson mystery 😂. But see, we know you want to dig deep into wicked tech and society issues, so that’s why we compiled our Responsible Tech Spring Reading List!
As with all of our projects and lists (such as our 500+ Responsible Tech Org List), we are always learning, adding to, and curating resources that serve to strengthen the overall Responsible Tech ecosystem and movement.
📖What books would you add? Let us know. And if you would like to discuss your thoughts on these books with others, slide on over to our growing Slack community, drop into a livestream, or see us IRL at an upcoming summit or mixer. You can find all of our projects and links here.
🥳Today we are announcing an upcoming Responsible Tech Summit: A Better Future for Youth on October 25th at the Australian Embassy!
Yep, that’s some big news. We’ll be gathering 250 individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia, and highlighting some incredible youth voices, and an array of people and orgs that have been working tirelessly to ensure the safety and wellbeing of young people online.
If you have been part of our community for a while, you may recall that we had a gathering around Youth, Tech, and Wellbeing at the Australian Embassy in D.C. last August for 120 people (see a summary video here, and our panel conversation here). We also recently held a roundtable conversation with Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant (who also spoke at a summit we held last May), and had a great visit with Australian Senator David Pocock at our Midtown Manhattan office.
🗽While our org is based in NYC, we deeply believe in a global approach to understanding competing values, best practices, and opportunities for collaboration. In our last newsletter, we announced that we will be holding a large Responsible Tech Summit in NYC this September in partnership with the Consulate General of Canada in New York.
Be on the lookout for continued ways we are creating a multistakeholder, multidisciplinary network that moves at the speed of tech (you can read about our process here).
Do you know of people and orgs that should be at our upcoming Responsible Tech Summit: A Better Future For Youth? Let us know through our interest form below!
✋Raise your hand if you like to meet others who deeply care about building a better tech future? We’re noticing a lot of raised hands…
Check out scenes from our recent Responsible Tech Mixer + Book Launch for Meredith Broussard’s More Than a Glitch! We had such a wonderful time meeting others who desire a community approach to understanding complex tech and society issues and working collectively to create a tech future aligned with our values. In our last newsletter, we shared the fireside chat with Meredith Broussard which you can find here. This gathering was done in partnership with our friends at Project Liberty.
We are gearing up for our next Responsible Tech Mixer in NYC on April 26th with special guest Douglas Rushkoff. Douglas will be delivering a sure-to-be-rousing talk entitled, “I Will Not Be Autotuned: Crashing Technosolutionism." We’ll also be giving out 50 copies of his new book, Survival of the Richest. While this gathering has reached capacity, we have a waitlist you can sign up for.
In future newsletters, we’ll be announcing special gatherings for May 31st and June 26th which we have lined up some incredible partners for. This is part of our monthly in-person series for 200 people we are holding at Betaworks in NYC. Would you like to inquire about partnering for future gatherings with All Tech Is Human? Ping Josh Chapdelaine from our team.
🙀ChatGPT. Midjourney. Harmful deep fakes. Last week we put together a livestream with two leading voices in Responsible AI.
Generative Artificial Intelligence has become a mainstream sensation — but how can the Responsible Tech community be prepared to determine hype from harm?
To answer this question, All Tech Is Human is curating a topical livestream series to highlight a range of interdisciplinary experts working on artificial intelligence. From policy experts and software engineers to lawyers, ethicists, and beyond, we’re bringing together our multistakeholder community to increase AI literacy, promote discussion, and help co-create a brighter future between humans and technology.
This past Friday, All Tech Is Human Program Director Rebekah Tweed moderated a conversation between Dr. Rumman Chowdhury and Elizabeth M. Renieris to kick off our new series! Watch the video above, and let us know who you’d like to see in future livestreams by pinging Rebekah. Dr. Chowdhury recently authored this piece on the topic for Wired (“AI Desperately Needs Global Oversight”), and Elizabeth recently released Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse.
👋Join us to learn about available Fellowships and Internships in Responsible Tech!
Hear from hiring managers at the Aspen Institute's Tech Policy Hub, the University of Virginia's School of Data Science, the Karsh Institute of Democracy, and more! We we also be hearing from Albert Fox Cahn from the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.).
You'll also have a chance to learn about our University Network, Spring Mentorship Program application process, Talent Pool, and meet our newest Program Associate, Elisa Fox! This event is being offered as part of our University Network livestream series that provides resources for building and strengthening the responsible technology ecosystem within academia.
🎉We’re getting ready for our first summit in London next week!
And since this is a big deal for our org, we went all out and set up a gathering for 250 people on the 68th floor of The Shard. A big thank you to everyone for the overwhelming amount of interest and support that came through our earlier interest form (with 640 requests for attendance). We are actively looking at ways to expand to accommodate this level of interest.
🤯There will be a wonderful mix of people across civil society, government, industry, and academia. You can read more about our gathering and speaker bios here. Orgs and companies in attendance will include AbilityNet, ActiveFence, Apple, Atlantic Council, BBC, Bethnal Green Ventures, BSR, Bumble, Change.org, Chatham House, Crisp, a Kroll Business, DCMS, Deloitte, Demos, Engine Room, Ethical Intelligence, EthicsGrade, Falkor, Freedom House, GIFCT, Global Partners Digital, Global Witness, GNET, Google, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, Internet Commission, Internet Matters, Internet Society, Internews, Ipsos, LEGO, Lockwood Publishing, London Office of Technology and Innovation (LOTI), Meta, Milltown Partners, Newsguard, NowNext, Ofcom, Open North, Open Rights Group, Oversight Board, Oxford Internet Institute, Salesforce, Social Finance, Spectrum Labs, Supercell, Tech Against Terrorism, The Mesa, The Royal Society, Thomson Reuters, TikTok, TIME, Tony Blair Institute, Trust Lab, Turing Institute, Twitch, UK Parliament, We and AI, WebPurify, and Yoti.
This gathering is made possible with the support of Crisp, a Kroll Business. And to get ready, check out our recently-released Tech & Democracy report!
🤔How do we ensure startups are building with ethical AI principles from day one? We’re exploring this issue with Responsible Innovation Labs with an intimate roundtable in NYC!
Well hello, ChatGPT! The future of AI is here and rapidly evolving. GPT tools are proliferating in new ways and leaders across all sectors are asking: What does this mean for the future?
Together, our organizations are arranging an intimate roundtable on cross-sector involvement to shape shared guardrails and ethical principles for the design, development, and deployment of AI systems. Who needs to be in this conversation? What resources are needed? How can we make this useful and stage-appropriate for founders and investors?
🍽️ This conversation will serve as a table-setting exercise to explore aspects of this big, gnarly question. Up until now, the ethical considerations of AI have mainly been the purview of large companies. But now, it’s time to consider what’s needed for earlier-stage companies at the frontier of building and scaling the next generation of tools and use cases.
Are you interested in being involved in this initiative? Please let us know through our interest form as we curate this conversation.
Join us for our next Digital Playground, a monthly series in partnership between New_ Public and All Tech Is Human.
Anil Dash, the founder of Glitch, the friendly developer community where coders have collaborated to create and share millions of web apps, says, “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, Dash is recognized as a leading advocate for more humane, inclusive, and ethical technology through his work as an entrepreneur, activist, and writer.
We’ve had three main observations gained from directly interacting with thousands of people since our founding in 2018: we need to speed up our ability to consider the impact of technology, people hunger for a hub of knowledge so we can build on each other’s work, and we need to change the current “tech pipeline” in order to better tackle complex tech & society issues.
That’s why our non-profit focuses on multistakeholder convening & community-building, multidisciplinary education, and diversifying the traditional tech pipeline with more backgrounds, disciplines, and perspectives. We are strengthening the Responsible Tech ecosystem so we can better tackle wicked problems and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest.
Our organization has always been structured a little differently than most, and that is all entirely by design. We are creating a better mousetrap, as we cannot approach 21st century problems with 20th century tools and mindsets. We need a different approach—one that moves faster, is highly collaborative and participatory, and provides pathways for new voices.
🐁Some good news: our better mousetrap works.
🎊We are thrilled to welcome Elisa Fox to the All Tech Is Human team!
Speaking of improving the traditional tech pipeline, our organization is expanding our efforts around guidance and matchmaking for those looking to grow in the Responsible Tech movement. That’s why we have our Responsible Tech Guide, our Welcome to the Responsible Tech Movement primer, Responsible Tech Job Board, and our Responsible Tech Talent Pool (with over 1k member now; find all links here).
That is one reason we are excited to welcome Elisa Fox as a Program Associate at All Tech Is Human, where she helps build the responsible tech ecosystem by diversifying the tech talent pipeline. She has a decade of program management experience in a variety of sectors ranging from higher education to the think tank space. Her past work and research have focused on cyber policy in the global south and ways to bring different perspectives into the policy conversation. She holds a B.A. in Politics and M.S. in Global Affairs from New York University.
Welcome to the team, Elisa. For those of you in the NYC area, Elisa will be based out of our Manhattan office.
😎 Cool happenings in Responsible Tech
We like to connect the people, organizations, and ideas of the Responsible Tech movement. There are a lot of great developments happening! Our aim to is to surface initiatives, events, new orgs, and more in order to have a more cohesive Responsible Tech movement that builds upon knowledge. Do you have something to add? Ping Sandra Khalil from our team.
👋 We’re organizing another Youth-Led Responsible Tech Movement roundtable alongside Civics Unplugged. This Thursday in NYC we will be holding our next roundtable, with featured speaker Emma Leiken (Responsible Technology at Omidyar Network). Interested in learning more? Ping Sandra Khalil or Selene Hernandez.
🏆We’ve been seeing some great projects get nominated for a Webby this year; our organization is a partner for this year’s Webby Awards. Public voting is now open until April 20th, with winners being announced on April 25th! Vote for your favorites today.
👍We’re proud to be a social media partner for Building Critical Black Digital Infrastructure in Cities Week, which is the inaugural event of #BlackTechFutures Research Institute. Presentations will be streamed live, for free, on Facebook from 6:00-8 p.m. CST on April 24–27. Register here.
“Hi folks! I'm on the community team at Mozilla, and my team has been working to make sure that the future of AI benefits humanity in the right ways by investing in the creation of trustworthy AI.
We're inviting people to submit ethical AI projects through the Responsible AI Challenge (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launches-responsible-ai-challenge/). As a participant, you'll join a gathering of the brightest technologists, business leaders and ethicists working on trustworthy AI to help get your ideas off the ground. Participants will also have access to mentorship from some of the best minds in the industry, the ability to meet key contributors in this community, and an opportunity to a grand prize of $25,000. Applications close April 20. You can join the Discord server here to ask questions and apply.” -Diyi "D.E." Zhu
“Calling all Women in Tech! Whether you are already working in tech or considering getting into the tech space — The NYC Chapter of Women in Tech is hosting an event this April 19, 2023. More about us, The NYC Chapter of Women in Tech, is a non-profit organization that aims to close the gender gap and help women embrace technology. In addition, we aim to create a safe space for women to network, learn, and build connections. We do this by hosting monthly events ranging from classic networking to panel discussions on specific topics.
This April 19, 2023, from 6:00 PM EDT - 8:30 PM EDT at AWS Loft, we are hosting an event centered around Blockchain. We will learn from women working in the field about real-world applications in Web3 and future disruptions for a decentralized world. To register and know more about the event, visit our Eventbrite. If you have any questions, you can contact me. We can’t wait to see you there!”-Olivia Manalastas
“Hi Fellow All Tech Is Human-ears. As we watch the drama unfolding in the social media world these days, you might be curious about the Fediverse alternatives. Mastodon and other federated networks create new paradigms for moderation that put more responsibility in the hands of communities and server owners. This means that there’s no centralized corporate platform with paid Trust & Safety professionals at the helm, leading to more freedom and new opportunities and challenges for people using the network and those maintaining it. Servers have their own individual moderation policies and their own methods of enforcement.
We at Integrity Institute are hosting an awesome free public program on Thursday, April 13th with two amazing experts on Fediverse moderation. Darius Kazemi is a Senior Frontend Engineer at Meedan, and an internet artist also known as Tiny Subversions. Kat Lo is the Content Moderation Lead and UX at Meedan and a consultant who helps tech, social media, and game companies on Trust & Safety, content moderation, and policy/enforcement around harassment, hate speech, and misinformation. Join us to learn and participate in a lively discussion about how this might evolve and what the challenges are with the federated model. Register here and contact Maddie Aleman with any questions.” -Laure X Cast
Hi everyone, my name is Ravit Dotan. I am an AI ethics activist, researcher, and practitioner. I care a lot about raising awareness to AI ethics issues and helping people upskill in the field. As part of these efforts, I would like to invite you to two events I am leading. The first is an introduction to AI ethics talk, on April 13 3pm ET. I will cover the fundamentals of AI ethics, including the state of the field and regulation. The second is a workshop called "ChatGPT: Who does it impact and how?", on April 20 2-3pm ET. This is a hands-on workshop in which people can practice AI ethics skills. The links above are to the free registration pages. Feel free to contact me through my LinkedIn page or my website!” -Ravit Dotan
"Hi everyone! We’ll be hosting our monthly Seattle All Tech Is Human community meetup/happy hour at our usual time, the third Thursday of the month, Apr. 20 @ 6:30pm. We’ll be meeting at Fremont Brewing to discuss responsible tech, what we can do to grow the community in Seattle, and generally just getting to know one another. All are welcome! Until then, have a great week and looking forward to seeing those of you who can attend." -Xavier Hayeck
🐆We’re moving at the speed of tech…to consider its impact.
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