The Responsible Tech Guide is here!
Plus upcoming gatherings, mentorship and university network updates, our work recognized by the White House, and much more
🎉 We’re celebrating the release of our Responsible Tech Guide, our flagship publication designed to empower and uplift the Responsible Tech ecosystem! The Responsible Tech Guide features interviews with leading experts from six continents, analysis and mapping of our focus areas (Responsible AI, Trust & Safety, Tech Policy, Cyber & Democracy, Public Interest Technology, and Youth, Tech, and Wellbeing), and key insights about the evolving ecosystem. Download this free resource today, and attend our livestream discussing key takeaways from the guide on September 19.
🌆 Next week we’re hosting the Responsible Tech Summit: Ensuring Our Tech Future is Aligned With Democracy on September 16 in NYC. Then we’re partnering with Safe Online for Ensuring a Safe Online Environment for Youth on September 17. We finish the week with AI Assessments, Audits, and Public Oversight Methods: An All Tech Is Human and IBM Collaborative Workshop on September 20 in NYC. Phew.
📅And then after attending a bunch of UNGA-related gatherings in NYC at the end of the month, we are off to San Francisco where we’ll have a Responsible Tech Mixer on October 9, a gathering on the state of Responsible AI on October 10, and then on October 11 we’re a partner for a Public Interest Technology Career Fair at Stanford.
🌏Not located in these regions? Not to worry. All Tech Is Human has a very global audience (98 countries in our Slack community), which is why we also recently started a weekly livestream series and local gatherings organized through our Slack. Join our Senior Fellow Alexis Crews TODAY at 1 pm ET for a conversation on technology and elections. You can watch here.
👍We are also honored that the White House cited our work with Thorn today for creating industry-leading Safety by Design guidelines to combat AI-generated harms against children, and the public commitments we have received from major tech companies. It’s a thorny tech & society issue, but we’re here for it.
Now, onto the newsletter. 👇
Our flagship resource, the Responsible Tech Guide, is being released today!
The Responsible Tech Guide (2024) is designed to inform, inspire, and illuminate pathways for individuals to expand their impact in the Responsible Tech ecosystem. Following our three pillars for change (community, education, careers), the Responsible Tech Guide features actionable ways to grow your community, increase your knowledge, and better understand career pathways.
This year’s Responsible Tech Guide features profile interviews from Afua Bruce, Audrey Tang, Baroness Beeban Kidron, Camille François, Cansu Canca, Eugenio V Garcia, Gemma Galdon Clavell, Johanna Weaver, Dr. Joy Buolamwini, June Okal, Lyel Lacoff Resner, Navrina Singh, Oumou Ly, Sean Litton, Sinead Bovell, Sonia Livingstone, Stéphane Dugin, and Trisha Prabhu. Check them out!
We spent a considerable amount of time synthesizing learnings from dozens of in-person gatherings and summits, our Slack community of over 10k, the over 1.3k people who’ve gone through our mentorship program, our growing University Network, our seven current working groups, our Responsible Tech Job Board, and more. Yes, we sift through a lot of intelligence and then create this guide.
It’s a comprehensive and informed view of the rapidly evolving Responsible Tech ecosystem. And, more importantly, it aims to ensure that more voices are part of the collective movement towards tackling complex tech and society issues and co-creating a tech future aligned with the public interest.
🎉 We want to celebrate the Responsible Tech Guide with you! We’ll be sharing insights and featuring special guests during a Responsible Tech Guide livestream on Thursday, Sept. 19th at 1 pm ET! Join David Ryan Polgar (Founder and President, All Tech Is Human) and Sherine Kazim (Strategic Operations) for a look into this year’s Responsible Tech Guide. Join us here!
👋Do you know of an individual who would benefit from the Responsible Tech Guide? We’d love your help in spreading the Responsible Tech Guide. It’s a free resource we are incredibly proud of, so we’d love for thousands of people across the globe to read it. Let a friend or colleague know about the Responsible Tech Guide!
We’re Proud to Support Mozilla’s 2024 Rise25 Honorees
All Tech Is Human is privileged to partner with Mozilla for its second annual Rise25 Awards to honor the people working to create a trustworthy AI future.
Mozilla's 2024 Rise25 Awards recently honored 25 people working to create trustworthy AI across multiple disciplines. This year’s categories included Advocates, Artists, Builders, Change Agents, and Entrepreneurs.
As a Mozilla partner for their Rise25 Awards, All Tech Is Human will produce a seminal livestream series highlighting the work and influence of three Rise25 Honorees. Livestreams will be broadcast on September 26, October 17, and November 14.
In addition, Rise25 honoree Sinead Bovell will be on stage at our upcoming Responsible Tech Summit on September 16 in NYC, and honoree Gemma Galdon-Clavell is on stage at our Responsible AI Governance Workshop on September 20 in NYC.
📖 Four of Mozilla’s Rise25 Honorees are featured in the new Responsible Tech Guide! Read profile interviews with honorees Audrey Tang, Cansu Canca, Sinead Bovell, and Gemma Galdon Clavell.
We’re Hiring a Community Manager to Grow and Maintain our Global Community 🌎
We’re hiring a NYC-based Community Manager who is passionate about building, supporting, and nurturing our growing community! So if you are someone (or know someone) who likes to build and maintain relationships, has experience running events, and can easily work with individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia, we’d love for you to apply for this immediate opening.
💡 Do you want to learn more about the Community Manager role and what it’s like to work at All Tech Is Human? David Ryan Polgar, Rebekah Tweed, Sandra Khalil, and Ali Feldhausen discussed the qualities of an ideal candidate in our recent livestream that you can watch here.
Join our SF gathering on October 10th as we discuss the state of Responsible AI
We’re bringing together 200+ industry leaders, social impact advocates, non-profit execs, and policymakers who are shaping the future of Responsible AI. If you are in San Francisco, please apply to this key gathering before we reach capacity. This event is part of SF Tech Week, and is being done in partnership with APCO.
There will be a panel, mixer, and ample time to share your knowledge with others. Our panelists include Chris Jones (the UK's most senior technology diplomat, the Director for International Technology for the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), Fatemeh Khatibloo (Director of Responsible AI and Tech at Salesforce), and Ian Eisenberg (Head of AI Governance Research at Credo AI).
🏠The day before, October 9th, we’re putting on a casual Responsible Tech Mixer SF aka “Responsible Tech House Party” with Fast Forward! How is this a house party, you ask? It’s a mixer for around sixty people (with a focus on Responsible Tech orgs), held at Fast Forward’s house/office located in the Presidio, a beautiful section of San Francisco that is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. This will be memorable. It will also fill up fast, so apply to join us!
Building a social impact tech solution or know someone who is? Fast Forward is accepting applications for their 2025 Startup Accelerator (due September 16).
Involved in Public Interest Technology? Reach out our way.
We’re thrilled to be partnering with Stanford’s Public Interest Tech Lab, along with the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, to help host the inaugural Public Interest Technology Summit & Career Fair on October 11th. This in-person event at Stanford University is supported by Project Liberty.
We’re currently looking for government, tech, policy, and other sectors involved in Public Interest Technology (PIT) to highlight their work. If the organization is recruiting for internships or entry-level positions that’s a bonus, but not a requirement to participate. Please fill out our application form here, and learn more about the summit & career fair here.
Our goal is to bring together a diverse set of companies and organizations to introduce students to the breadth of PIT-related skills and careers in the field. The goal is to bridge the gap between student passion for Public Interest Technology careers and the pathways to make that a reality.
Call For Applicants! Here’s Your Chance to Lead a Responsible Tech University Network Founding Chapter
Our Responsible Tech University Network is off and running, as we are on pace to have 100 ATIH-affiliated clubs by April 2025. Are you interested in leading a founding chapter? We’d love for you to apply.
The Responsible Tech University Network is designed to connect university students interested in Responsible Tech who can learn from each other through knowledge-sharing and collaboration opportunities. A campus-based club will serve as an entry point for other students to learn more about the emerging Responsible Tech movement, and to learn from the student leader. Leaders of clubs benefit by expanding their personal networks and gaining valuable experience.
💡And we’re making predictions, we’re pretty sure some of these leaders will turn up in a future version of our Responsible Tech Guide.
Learn more about Steven Kelts, who runs the Responsible Tech University Network. Steven is also a professor at Princeton who was recently in Paris for the Olympics, where he stopped by a mixer organized through our Slack. Steven and Chinmayi Sharma just published this piece in Tech Policy Press. The article describes what they learned by conducting a first-of-its-kind interactive simulation intended to identify the challenges of developing Responsible AI products and services.
✍️ Apply to be a Mentor for our Responsible Tech Mentorship Program
Did you know we have over 1k people on our waitlist for next year’s mentorship program? There is a significant amount of interest in our community to be mentored in our upcoming program starting February 1 and running through May 31. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis through November 1 (that’s when applications open for mentees).
Questions? Email our Program Director, Sarah Welsh at mentorship@alltechishuman.org
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💪We’re building the world’s largest multistakeholder, multidisciplinary network in Responsible Tech. This powerful network allows us to tackle thorny tech & society issues while moving at the speed of tech. Are you part of a foundation that wants to support our mission? Reach out directly to David Ryan Polgar to learn about our new Responsible Tech Supporters Network launching in early 2025.