Responsible Tech Summer Reading List!
Plus an upcoming livestream on Agentic AI, the theme for our Responsible Tech Summit, pictures and videos from our Trust & Safety gathering in DC, and more
👋So, how are you doing? On our end, we are fresh from our Trust & Safety gathering last week in DC, and gearing up for a mixer next week in Brooklyn, and then two gatherings in London (Online Safety and AI Assurance).
We’re also busy putting together our next Responsible Tech Guide, along with additional resources you’ll see in upcoming newsletters, and starting to secure the first speakers for our forthcoming Responsible Tech Summit: Centering Humanity in Our Tech Future, which is being held October 27th in NYC. In addition, we are putting together an AI Governance workshop for early September.
In today’s newsletter, you’ll read about our 2025 Responsible Tech Summer Reading List, an upcoming webinar on Agentic AI, a new Global Election Guide Series by ATIH Senior Fellow Alexis Crews, videos from our DC gathering, a write-up about our Finnish Consulate gathering to strengthen multistakeholder collaboration in Responsible AI, and much more.
Now, onto the newsletter! 👇
📚Check out our Responsible Tech Summer Reading List!
Here at All Tech Is Human, we love books. As an organization that directly interacts with thousands of people in the Responsible Tech ecosystem, we see firsthand how a captivating book can motivate someone to join the movement. We’ve been honored to feature dozens of authors on our stages and in our bi-monthly livestream series, such as our recent conversation with NYT-bestselling author Karen Hao (Empire of AI).
What do you think of the list?! Let us know!
📺Related resources: Watch our recent discussions with authors Kashmir Hill, Dr. Joy Buolamwini, Sherry Turkle, Frank McCourt, Frances Haugen, Greg Epstein, Cory Doctorow, and many more!
🗣️Let’s discuss Agentic AI!
Join All Tech Is Human's Executive Director, Rebekah Tweed, in conversation with Center for Democracy & Technology AI Governance Lab's Miranda Bogen, Director (CDT AI Governance Lab), Chinmay Deshpande (Fellow, CDT) and Ruchika Joshi (Fellow, CDT) to discuss the emerging technical and policy considerations for Agentic AI systems.
The panelists will discuss their recently published article, "AI Agents In Focus Technical and Policy Considerations," and unpack emerging issues such as agent security and misuse, user privacy, user control, technical and legal infrastructure for agent governance, the impact of human-like agents, and responsibility for agent harms.
🎉A broad mix of 200 individuals came together in DC to explore the future of Trust & Safety!
Here at All Tech Is Human, we specialize in creating a conducive environment for understanding values, tensions, tradeoffs, and best practices. This was in full effect last Wednesday in DC, when a wonderful array of backgrounds came together to discuss the rapidly evolving policy landscape and field of Trust & Safety.
A big thank you to Resolver, which teamed up with our organization to help make this gathering a reality. See the videos below, and be on the lookout for a write-up in our next newsletter.
The panel featured Aliya Bhatia (Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Democracy and Technology), Joy Park (Senior Policy Lead, Google Play & Android), Katie Harbath (Founder & CEO, Anchor Change), and moderator Sandra Khalil (Associate Director, All Tech Is Human). There is a short introduction by David Ryan Polgar (Founder & President of All Tech Is Human).
The second conversation featured Scott Vlachos (Executive Director, CENSA), Colleen Mearn (Head of Enforcement & Operations for AI Safeguards, Anthropic), Juliet Shen (Head of Product, ROOST.tools), and moderator Henry Adams (Director of Trust and Safety, Resolver).
💡Are you a Trust & Safety professional looking to connect with others? Or perhaps you are interested in joining the field? Connect with others through our large Slack community (sign in | apply).
The theme for our next Responsible Tech Summit is: Centering Humanity in Our Tech future.
As an organization, we strongly reject the notion that our tech future is not predetermined and outside our control. It is always shaped by people and policies, just not always the ones we think are aligned with our values. Our upcoming summit is helping shape the narrative, unite key stakeholders, and ensure we can co-create a tech future that is truly in the public interest. [Read our mission]
Whether we’re discussing AI companion chatbots, the design of social media platforms, or the potential impacts of AI on our future careers, it is necessary to ensure that we don’t lose sight that technology is not happening to us, it is happening by us.
Our upcoming Responsible Tech Summit, which is a highly curated gathering for 265 leaders helping shape our future, will be held on October 27th in NYC. This year’s theme on Centering Humanity in Our Tech Future will focus on agency, intentionality, empathy, and ensuring our humaneness is adequately considered.
We are currently collecting speaker suggestions and interest in participation in the form below.
🗳️Introducing Our Global Election Guide Series
The integrity of elections now hinges not just on ballots and polling stations, but on the systems that shape information flows, trust, and public discourse. As technology continues to play an outsized role—from AI-generated content to platform amplification and cross-border influence operations—there’s an urgent need to reimagine how we prepare for and support elections globally.
That’s why we’ve launched the Election Guide series at All Tech Is Human. Built from our work with the UNDP Action Coalition on Information Integrity in Elections, this series led by ATIH Senior Fellow Alexis Crews offers a tangible starting point for practitioners, platforms, and civil society organizations navigating this evolving landscape.
Read the first post in the multi-part series; an election brief on the upcoming general elections for Boliva.
📓Notes from ATIH…
Don’t forget to watch the livestream for Shared Futures: A Forum on AI which streams all day Friday. For those attending in person in DC, be sure to say hello to ATIH Founder & President David Ryan Polgar.
In our last newsletter we shared pictures for our recent curated gathering at the Finnish Consulate in New York on Responsible AI. Read our write-up regarding takeaways from our two panels, The Role of Civil Society and Research in Shaping Responsible AI Policy and Aligning Transatlantic AI Governance in a Shifting Regulatory Landscape.
For those attending the ACM FAccT Conference virtually, ATIH’s Rebekah Tweed is giving a tutorial on Participatory & Periodic Red-Teaming of LLMs. And for those in NYC, find Rebekah Tweed at this unofficial NYC Alt-FAccT gathering on Friday, June 20th, 2025 in lower Manhattan and live-streamed online.
We’re continuing to collect interest for upcoming projects around the important questions we need to ask with building AI Companion Chatbots.
Speaking of chatbots…what about griefbots? In our recent livestream, we had a free-flowing conversation around Death & AI. Watch here.
Lastly, we hope to see many of you at our July 16th gathering in London at The Royal Society for 250 people!
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