Building the Next Generation of Responsible Technologists & Changemakers

All Tech is Human Series #4: with Rumman Chowdhury & Yoav Schlesinger

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Details from the original livestream event put on by All Tech is Human

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Action Items

For Anyone Seeking Mentorship : 

1. Start making connections with anyone and everyone in the field

2. Ask proactively for mentorship from others -- don’t expect them to come to you!

3. If you are reaching out to someone for mentorship:

   1. Don’t be afraid to email them more than once, you are not being annoying

   2. Utilize other people’s resources, ask them to introduce you to others in this field

   3. Don’t take it personally if they don’t get back to you!

For Anyone Not Seeking Mentorship: 

1. Become a mentor for someone else!

2. Figure out what you have expertise in and be willing to share your knowledge with others who want to get into your field.

3. Be clear about what you can offer, what your boundaries are, etc..

For Those Who Work or Want to Work in the Tech Industry:

1. Ask yourself what your personal ethics and values are, and make sure you understand what the ethics and values of the company you are looking to work for are -- it’s probably a red flag if your values don’t align with the organizations!

2. Don’t be afraid to say no!

3. When it comes to tech ethics - don’t think that you need to be an expert in moral philosophy frameworks in order to begin making an impact on tech ethics in your company, instead you can begin wherever you are, perhaps by just focusing on risk spotting and risk mitigation

4. Ask yourself: How can we ethically speculate about the risks of our technology in order to best mitigate them in a responsible and intentional way?

5. If you are an engineer:

   1. Start having conversations about responsible technology

   2. If you are interested in becoming an engineering leader, emphasize the importance of responsible tech on your team

   3. Encourage data scientists especially to get interested in and passionate about responsible tech

For Non-Coders Who Are Passionate About Responsible Tech:

1. Seek out resources to understand the basics of algorithms and the software industry - check out our list of resources on this below!

2. Apply for positions at organizations and fellowships that are looking for social scientists to do interdisciplinary work - check out our list of resources on this below!

3. Find a specific issue or topic that interests you, and become an expert on that topic!

4. This will make your application more appealing to those who are hiring for non-technical positions. For example: environmental sustainability, fairness, discriminatory tech, etc…

5. What is needed right now: People who can translate and educate

   1. Figure out what you have to offer, and find a way to translate this to those who could use your expertise!

6. Start to attend conferences that emphasize responsible tech - check out our list of resources on this below!

7. Get on Twitter! The Responsible Tech community is very active and welcoming :)

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Annotated Resources

Resources From Rumman Chowdhury (guest speaker from this episode):

1. Twitter: @ruchowdh

2. Personal Website

3. Auditing Algorithms for Bias (An introduction to Rumman’s work on the AI Fairness tool for Accenture)

Resources From Yoav Schlesigner (guest speaker from this episode):

1. Twitter: @yschlesinger

2. Ethical AI at Salesforce (Yoav is a Principal Researcher for the Ethical AI team)

3. Anticipating the Future Impact of Today's Technology | Yoav Schlesinger | Talks at Google

Resources to learn coding basics and responsible tech without learning how to code:

1. What is AI? We drew you a flowchart to work it out

2. What is machine learning? (Another Flowchart)

3. Computing human bias with AI technology

4. Play this bingo game with your kids to teach them about AI

5. We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next

6. Can you make AI fairer than a judge? Play our courtroom algorithm game

7. Ben Olsen: Education for Responsible AI (introduced by Rumman)

8. Compliance vs. Responsible tech

   1. Salesforce Responsible Tech vs. Compliance

9. Ethics and emerging technology learning at Microsoft

Groups To Follow / Seek For Jobs & Fellowships in This Space:

1. Tech Congress (mentioned by Yoav)

2. Aspen Tech Policy Hub (mentioned by David)

3. AI Now Institute

4. Upturn.org

   1. Equal Future

5. Propublica

6. Microsoft Research

   1. HCI Team

   2. FATE research team

7. Google Ethical AI Team

8. Salesforce Ethical AI Team

9. Accenture Responsible AI Team

10. Center for Critical Internet Inquiry

11. Women in AI Ethics

12. All Tech is Human

13. The Radical AI Podcast

14. Who else? Leave it to us in a comment below! (to submit your comment, hover over the bottom right corner of the comment box)

Academic Conferences to Attend:

1. CSCW

2. CHI

3. FAccT

4. What else? Leave it to us in a comment below! (to submit your comment, hover over the bottom right corner of the comment box)

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Do you have any more action items that you’d like to share that are related to this topic? Any resources you’d like to include in this list? We’d love to hear from you! Feel free to leave your thoughts in a comment below (you can post your comment by hovering over the bottom-right corner of the comment box).