Tracy Chou, Julia Angwin, Cathy O'Neil and more! Livestream on Tuesday, holiday party on Thursday!
Plus our Responsible Tech Mentorship Program, announcements about 2024 gatherings, upcoming working groups, and more.
👋Well, hello there! A lot is happening here at All Tech Is Human, including a special livestream on Tuesday about the brand-new International Association of Algorithmic Auditors, our holiday party in NYC this Thursday, and an upcoming gathering with Julia Angwin and Tracy Chou!
🎉Our team just got back from London, where we brought together hundreds of individuals at the historic Conway Hall and also held curated roundtables with Ofcom and the Oversight Board. We’re already planning our next London stop, along with various gatherings across the globe in 2024. Reach out our way with your suggestions!
👉We’re busy at work on our Responsible Tech Org List 2024 to be released in January (submit ideal orgs), expanding the impact of our new affiliate program, and getting ready to launch multiple open working groups in the New Year. We are also continuing to gather mentor applications for our Responsible Tech Mentorship Program and will open up applications for mentees in January.
💡All Tech Is Human is building the world’s largest multistakeholder, multidisciplinary network in Responsible Tech. This allows us to tackle thorny tech & society issues while moving at the speed of tech, leveraging collective intelligence, and diversifying the tech pipeline to better meet the challenges we face. Reach out to David Polgar if you would like to learn more about our plans for 2024.
🤜Take back control of your data in 2024 with our gathering in NYC with special guests Tracy Chou and Julia Agwin!
Come attend the first event of 2024 for All Tech Is Human's popular monthly series in NYC where 200 people who deeply care about co-creating a better tech future come together to mingle, learn from each other, and hear a panel conversation.
🎊For Jan 29th, we are partnering with Consumer Reports to take back control of our data and privacy with Data Action Day! our all-star panel will feature Tracy Chou (founder & CEO of Block Party), Julia Angwin (award-winning journalist, bestselling author, founder of The Markup), and more to be announced soon.
This gathering will fill up quickly, as it is entirely free and includes food, drink, and ample time to get to know others in the Responsible Tech movement. All Tech Is Human draws a broad range of backgrounds, so you will be hanging out with privacy advocates, Trust & Safety professionals, civil society orgs, students, artists, designers, academics, and everyone in between.
🗣️January 29th is aimed at raising awareness and fostering data activism among young people, university students, privacy advocates, and all individuals concerned about their digital privacy! Consumer Reports will also have a demo space where attendees can explore and learn (hands-on) about data privacy, along with a demo of the new Privacy Party! We will also be encouraging engagement in discussions about data action, privacy, ethics, and how to bring the conversation back to campuses, communities, etc.
📢SEMAFOR just covered the news of the newly formed International Association of Algorithmic Auditors (IAAA), and we have their very first livestream following the announcement!
Members of IAAA include Mona Sloane, Rumman Chowdhury, Cathy O’Neil, Gemma Galdon Clavell, Shea Brown, Ramak Molavi Vasse'i, Jenny Brennan, Divij Joshi, and Jacob Metcalf.
For our livestream, Rebekah Tweed will be chatting with Cathy O’Neil, Gemma Galdon Clavell, and Shea Brown about careers in AI auditing. IAAA was established to help professionalize the AI auditing sector by creating training curriculums and a code of conduct. Join us for this important discussion on Tuesday, December 12th at 1pm ET!
🥳Let’s celebrate the growing Responsible Tech community on December 14th!
If you are involved in the Responsible Tech ecosystem, this is a gathering you won't want to miss! And as a special bonus, the first 60 registered attendees who show up on December 14th (doors at 6pm) will receive a free copy of Raising Hell, Living Well: Freedom from Influence In a World Where Everyone Wants Something from You (including me) by Jessica Elefante! Author Jessica Elefante will also be at the party to say hello.
There will be food, drinks, prizes, and ample time to get to know others who deeply care about co-creating a better tech future. This one is filling up quickly, so register today to join us in NYC!
🥳We’ll be greatly expanding our Trust & Safety work in 2024! Read about Matt Soeth joining our team.
🤔A recent piece in the Guardian asked, “Where are the godmothers of AI?” And a recent New York Times article on AI leaders carelessly forgot to mention any female leaders.
David Polgar’s recent post on this topic has been making some waves.
Some great women in AI that we have featured this year:
Dr. Joy Buolamwini in conversation with Sinead Bovell | WATCH
Kashmir Hill in conversation with Rebekah Tweed | WATCH
Meredith Broussard in conversation with David Polgar | WATCH
Dr. Rumman Chowdury and Jutta Williams in conversation with Donie O'Sullivan | WATCH
Renée Cummings in conversation with David Polgar | WATCH
Triveni Gandhi and Ravit Dotan in conversation with Rebekah Tweed | WATCH
😎Cool Happenings in Responsible Tech
All Tech Is Human unites the people, organizations, and ideas across the Responsible Tech movement. Do you have something you would like to share with our community? Ping Sandra Khalil, Head of Partnerships.
“Hey responsible tech enthusiasts! My name is Ever Bussey and I’m the program officer at the Social Science Research Council’s Just Tech Program. I’m happy to announce that we’re accepting application for the 2024-2026 cohort of the Just Tech Fellowship. Our fellowship offers $200k over the course of two years to support researchers and practitioners at the intersection of social justice and technology. In addition to $200k in unrestricted funds, we also offer up to $30k in supplemental funding and $5k in funding to support collaboration amongst our Fellows.
For more information, you can consult our website and reach out to our team at just-tech@ssrc.org. Also consider watching the recording from our recent public information session, where we share details on the fellowship and application process. Note that the application closes on January 31, 2024, at 11:59pm. We hope you consider applying!” -Ever Bussey
📅 On December 12th, there will be independently organized gatherings for the All Tech Is Human community happening in Philadelphia and Seattle! Independently organized gatherings are happening through our large Slack community of over 7k members across 87 countries (sign in | join). Ping Alyssa Boicel for Philly and Xavier Hayeck for Seattle.
📆 In our next newsletter, we will be launching multiple open working groups that will be focused on our knowledge hubs (Responsible AI, Trust & Safety, Tech Policy, Youth/Tech/Wellbeing…).
👍 Renée Cummings, our Senior Fellow for AI, Data, and Public Policy, will be speaking at the Atlantic Dialogues Conference in Marrakesh, under the theme “A More Assertive Atlantic: Its Meaning for the World”. The conference takes place from December 14 to 16.
📺 Sara M. Watson, our Siegel Research Fellow, will be appearing on screen in the film Eternal You, a documentary exploring the startups developing AI avatars so that relatives can contact their loved ones after they have died. In addition, Sara will be at Sundance to bring A People's History of Tech as a participatory storytelling installation! Learn more here.
👏Our All Tech Is Human affiliates are involved in some incredible projects! Anabelle "Belle" Torek just filed an amicus curiae brief to urge the US Supreme Court to protect social media companies’ First Amendment right to moderate hate and harassment on their platforms, Nadah Feteih just spoke to students at UC San Diego about her Trust & Safety experience and how social media and technology has amplified Islamophobia, Lindsey Washburn talked about the importance of public interest technology on a podcast, and Faisal Lalani wrote about the impact of social media in Sri Lanka, and Jason Steinhauer appeared on C-SPAN to talk about the historical context of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
📺All Tech Is Human was on TV yesterday! Yep, our earlier conversation with New York Times journalist Kashmir Hill about her new book, Your Face Belongs to Us, aired multiple times on C-SPAN2’s BookTV. Check out the page here.
🎙️Founder & President David Polgar was the inaugural guest on Activists in Tech—The Responsible Tech Podcast, where he talked about building the All Tech Is Human community.
🤔Did you see the new Digital Spaces Directory we assisted New_ Public with? Volunteer Iris Vold just wrote about all of the hard work that went into launching this.
🤑 Want to change the future of Responsible Tech?! Work in it! We are continuing to expand our Responsible Tech Job Board, Responsible Tech Talent Pool, and Tekalo (free matchmaking for social impact roles). And for companies looking for talent, we have our matchmaking service!
🤯 We have been fortunate to have an incredible array of speakers at our gatherings in 2023. Speakers have included Frances Haugen, Sherry Turkle, Tim Wu, Nabiha Syed, Meredith Broussard, Sinead Bovell, Dr. Joy Buolamwini, Rumman Chowdhury, Yoel Roth, Maya Wiley, Douglas Rushkoff, Kashmir Hill, and many more! Check out some of our recent videos here.
🗓️ In our next newsletter, we will be releasing at event page for our Feb 28th gathering in Washington, DC about Safety by Design! This will be a large gathering for those working on reducing online harms and creating healthier digital spaces. You can let us know if you are interested here.
👍We recently held a livestream with youth online safety advocate and founder of ReThink, Trisha Prabu! Watch the video of our conversation.
Ravit Dotan and Rebekah Tweed having some fun at a recent Dataiku holiday party in NYC
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