Upcoming Responsible Tech gatherings and livestreams
Plus our new university student clubs and much more!
👋Well hello there! In today’s newsletter, you’ll read about The Future of Trust & Safety gathering in NYC on May 14, our org becoming a partner for the UN’s Protection Through Online Participation (PoP) initiative, joining NIST’s AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), and two livestreams: This Month in Responsible AI (today at 1pm ET), and next week’s Responsible Tech Author Series discussion. And for those of you in Austin, we are having a casual mixer on April 17. Lastly, we are kickstarting university student clubs and looking for leaders!
💡Based on a lot of your feedback, we just put together a helpful guide to direct you to all of our many activities! Check out Your Responsible Tech Journey Starts Here, which will guide you to our resources centered on community-building, education, and careers.
👉That’s our three-part method to creating change as we build the world’s largest multistakeholder, multidisciplinary network in Responsible Tech. This allows us to collectively tackle the thorniest tech & society issues. Our unique approach creates a more cohesive ecosystem, diversifies the voices involved, and is capable of moving at the speed of tech!
📅We have a lot in the works here at All Tech Is Human. Soon we will be announcing speakers for our Responsible Tech Summit (Sept 16, NYC), a gathering in London, and six (!!) upskilling courses we are building around our key areas of Responsible AI, Trust & Safety, Public Interest Technology, Tech Policy, Cyber & Democracy, and Youth, Tech, and Wellbeing.
👇Now, onto the newsletter:
🥳We’re thrilled to announce our panel for The Future of Trust & Safety! This gathering is happening in NYC on Monday, May 14
The Future of Trust & Safety is a convening designed to bring together emerging and established Trust and Safety professionals to share how to break into the space and consider what the future of Trust and Safety will look like. Invitations are going out this week!
Panelists will share career advice, what makes their role exciting, the challenges they face, how policy such as the Digital Services Act influences Trust and Safety operations, and what they think the future holds in store for the sector.
The Future of Trust & Safety will feature a panel and fireside chat of premiere emerging and established leaders including Eirliani Abdul Rahman (Doctoral student, Harvard University, founding member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council), Alexis Camille Crews (Founder of E∙NOUGH Consulting, former Strategic Advisor for Governance at Meta), Jacob Silver (Senior Data & Implementation Officer at Oversight Board), and moderated by All Tech Is Human’s Sandra Khalil (Head of Partnerships and Trust & Safety Vertical).
We invite you to apply to attend Future of Trust & Safety. This is a curated gathering of 200 individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia. We are looking for people new to Trust & Safety, emerging talent, established individuals, and those interested in the field. Attendance to this gathering is free for those invited after filling out our application. Please note: we receive far more requests than spots available.
🎊All Tech Is Human is proud to become a partner for the UN's Protection Through Online Participation (PoP) initiative!
Our organization is thrilled to now be part of a group of UN agencies, NGOs, tech platforms, and gaming companies that are joining forces to explore how we can support children and young people with access to resources for safety and protection online. Check out the UN's Protection Through Online Participation (PoP) initiative.
The PoP initiative is currently drafting a set of recommendations to adopt and make such helpful information related to a better, safer internet easily accessible. Would you like to help? Tell us how you use online platforms to be safer!
👋Join our livestream today at 1pm ET!
A lot is happening in the world of Responsible AI. That’s why we recently started a monthly livestream series, This Month in Responsible AI, where All Tech Is Human’s Rebekah Tweed and leading AI ethicist and data activist Renée Cummings (Senior Fellow, AI, Data, and Public Policy at All Tech Is Human) discuss the latest happenings.
📺And if you are unable to attend today, you can watch the replay here (or on our YouTube later).
All Tech Is Human is proud to announce that it joined more than 200 of the nation’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) stakeholders to participate in a Department of Commerce initiative to support the development and deployment of trustworthy and safe AI. Established by the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on February 8, 2024, the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC) brings together AI creators and users, academics, government and industry researchers, and civil society organizations to meet this mission.
The consortium includes more than 200 member companies and organizations that are on the frontlines of developing and using AI systems, as well as the civil society and academic teams that are building the foundational understanding of how AI can and will transform our society. These entities represent the nation’s largest companies and its innovative startups; creators of the world’s most advanced AI systems and hardware; key members of civil society and the academic community; and representatives of professions with deep engagement in AI’s use today. The consortium also includes state and local governments, as well as non-profits. The consortium will also work with organizations from like-minded nations that have a key role to play in setting interoperable and effective safety around the world.
The full list of consortium participants is available here.
📕The Responsible Tech Author Series returns with the author of Governable Spaces Nathan Schneider on Wednesday, April 10!
Nathan Schneider, author of Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life and Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, will join All Tech Is Human’s David Ryan Polgar (Founder & President) in our latest installment of the Responsible Tech Author Series on Wednesday, April 10, at 1:00 PM ET!
Nathan Schneider is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the MA program in Media and Public Engagement. Our upcoming conversation will discuss ways to reimagine the relationship between platforms and the individuals on them. How can we make online spaces more democratic? Join our sure-to-be lively conversation!
💪Strengthening the Information Ecosystem Learnings
All Tech Is Human and the Consulate General of Finland in New York co-hosted Strengthening the Information Ecosystem on March 6, 2024. The gathering brought together more than 85 stakeholders across civil society, government, academia, and industry to discuss ways to foster information integrity. The program explored…
Best practices to build resilience and relationships to advance trust in the information ecosystem
Practical strategies to combat disinformation and misinformation
Recommendations to empower individuals and institutions
Click here to download 20+ pages of learnings from Strengthening the Information Ecosystem at the Finnish Consulate!
👋Now is your chance to lead an All Tech Is Human club on your campus!
Students: Lead an All Tech Is Human club on your campus!
All Tech Is Human is growing our University Network. Apply to be the founder of a club on your campus! If you have at least one year left of your undergraduate or graduate program, we’ll help you start a student group, run it, and pass a legacy on to future students.
By founding an All Tech Is Human club you’ll be helping your fellow students plan for careers in responsible tech. ATIH offers certificates, an active mentorship program, and our community’s premiere resource, the Responsible Tech Job Board, to help people find roles in the field. You can bring all that to your university, creating a pathway into internships and jobs with some of our participating organizations.
So let us know: do you want to get on board?! Fill out the leadership application. Leaders of campus chapters will get special access to ATIH events, trainings and internship opportunities. If you want to speak individually with Steven Kelts – the Director of the University Network – about what we can accomplish on your campus, contact him at steven@alltechishuman.org.
🌵Are you in Austin? Join our casual mixer happening on April 17!
Join All Tech Is Human’s Rebekah Tweed and Sarah Welsh (Head of our mentorship program) in Austin, Texas for a casual meet-up on Wed, April 17th at 7pm. Rebekah will be in town to speak earlier in the day at Workhuman (topic: Artificial Intelligence and the Role of Humanity in HR, and Sarah is based there. Come say hello and meet others who deeply care about building a better tech future.
🤔What Threats Do Deepfakes Pose to the World?
All Tech Is Human recently held Deepfakes and Synthetic Media, a livestream featuring a world-class panel of experts discussing the threats deepfakes and synthetic media pose to our world. The panel paid particular attention to the rising concerns related to non-consensual image sharing.
Deepfakes and Synthetic Media was hosted by All Tech Is Human’s Sandra Khalil, and featured Dr. Mary Anne Franks (President and Legislative & Tech Policy Director, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative), Belle Torek (Tech Policy Expert & Senior Fellow, Human Rights Campaign), and Ben Colman (Co-Founder and CEO, Reality Defender).
The panel discussed:
The differences between deepfakes, cheap fakes, and shallow fakes
Motivation to address the ongoing harms of deepfakes and synthetic media
The ways deepfakes and synthetic media harm marginalized communities
How deepfakes and synthetic media inform the larger information ecosystem
The detrimental impacts of deepfakes and synthetic media on women and girls
The legal bottlenecks associated with tackling these issues
📱Julia Angwin discusses the consequences of a TikTok ban
All Tech Is Human was privileged to host Founder of Proof News Julia Angwin for a livestream discussion about the United States House of Representatives vote to force TikTok to divest from Chinese ownership within six months or be banned.
Angwin discussed the consequences of a ban, privacy and transparency concerns, and what United States voters really want legislators to take action on. We’ve highlighted key excerpts of the livestream conversation in this post.
📝 Are you interested in finding a new career in responsible tech? We’ve curated 10 careers from our job board, and 10 roles in both Responsible AI and Trust & Safety. Click here to view hundreds of career opportunities from our Responsible Tech Job Board, the premiere resource for responsible tech careers.
📺 All Tech Is Human Executive Director Rebekah Tweed discussed women pioneering AI innovation on a panel at Arthur AI’s Ground Truth on March 26! Rebekah joined Savannah Thais (Professor, Columbia University Data Science Institute + ATIH affiliate), Diana Hsieh (Reality Defender), Teresa Datta (Arthur), and Tanya Due (LinkedIn News). Watch now!
🤝Matthew Soeth (Head of Trust and Safety and Global Affairs) joined Social & Media Matters to discuss AI and online safety, regulatory frameworks for child safety, and the future of AI in children’s lives. Watch now!
📜We recently released our Responsible Tech Org List 2024, which features numerous organizations in Responsible Tech, twenty profile interviews, and actionable ways for you to get involved!
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