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Our Mission

We believe in growing and diversifying the Responsible Tech community by creating pathways and developing opportunities for individuals from various cultural, academic, and professional backgrounds to get involved in the field.

We envision a world in which diverse and global voices are equipped and empowered to influence responsible development of technologies that impact their own lives and society at large.

Source: All Tech Is Human Website

Our Values

• Connecting any dialogue about the design and deployment of new technologies with the impact on people, communities, and society.
• Fostering a proactive and solution-focused approach to understanding and addressing any Responsible Tech issues.
• Championing inclusivity – race, ethnicity, age, gender, class, sexual orientation, religion, disability, experience, background, expertise, and intersectionality.
• Celebrating unique and interdisciplinary professions that extend the boundaries of the Responsible Technology field.
• Affecting change through different levers of power – education, policy, and participation. Elevating the work of organizations and institutions globally who are committed to the notion of Responsible Technology

Source: All Tech Is Human Website

Our Ten Principles

We are committed to strengthening the Responsible Tech ecosystem.

1: The future of technology is intertwined with the future of democracy and the human condition. 

When we talk about “tech,” we are really speaking about something much larger. Tech alters the way we get our news, interact with others, and see the world around us. By extension, that affects the overall human condition and the future of democracy.

Therefore, it behooves us to think of the “tech conversation” as a discussion over our values and the future we would like to live in. That means that the conversation shouldn’t be limited to everyone directly involved in the development of technology, but instead everyone who cares about its impact.

2: In order to align our tech future with the public interest, we need to involve the public.

We need a heavily participatory structure that can incorporate the understandings and values of a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives. Too often, people without input are affected by the design, development, and deployment of technology that leaves us feeling left out of the process.

3: We need collective action, not just individual thought leadership.

There needs to be a great focus on co-creation, which by its very nature entails moving away from a top-down form of communication where ideas are disseminated from a few select thought leaders. People aren’t looking for ideas to parrot, they are desiring to be part of a connected body of knowledge and understanding.

4: No application without representation—not about us without us.

Decisions that affect billions are made by a small sliver of society. The very name of our organization, All Tech is Human emphasizes the importance of human agency in a landscape traditionally dominated by market-first values. The future is not predetermined by machines. It is constantly created by humans.

5: Combining multiple stakeholders, disciplines, and perspectives requires an agnostic space for understanding and knowledge-sharing.

In order to tackle wicked tech and society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest, we need all stakeholders involved. This typically does not happen because of siloed conversations and also because there is a significant amount of distrust between stakeholders. All Tech is Human is intentionally designed to unite individuals and organizations with competing values and philosophies to highlight our shared desire for a better tech future

6: People often struggle to “find the others” and discover the wide variety of people and orgs committed to co-creating a better tech future.

In order to accelerate tech consideration and co-create a better tech future, we need to have ways to easily find other people, organizations, and research so that we can learn, share, and collaborate. We are committed to enhancing discoverability and democratizing information in the Responsible Tech ecosystem.

7: “Technology” is not just for technologists; we need all disciplines involved.

Technology requires a holistic and cooperative environment to gain a deeper understanding of its full landscape. Rather than solely rely on technologists and technical individuals, we need people who can solve technical problems in a human way; without the humanities in technology, technology’s potential can never fully be realized.

8: Top-down models have power but often lack a diversity of ideas; grassroots models have ideas but often lack power.

We unite these models. Our organization employs a unique “grassroots-power model” that rapidly circulates power and ideas across an interconnected multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder network. In other words, All Tech Is Human has grassroots understanding while also being connected to traditional levers of power.

9: Tech innovation moves fast, while our ability to consider its impact often moves slow. We need to reduce the gulf between these.

All Tech Is Human is designed to “move at the speed of tech,” which massively lowers the gulf between how fast innovation moves and how slow consideration typically moves. The inability for traditional sources of influence (political bodies, universities, legacy organizations) to move quickly had led to our current situation of reacting to the effects of technology, as opposed to proactively understanding its likely impacts and developing necessary rules and regulations.

10: There is a growing awareness and understanding of the root causes of our current dilemma, but limited action toward understanding values, trade-offs, and best paths forward.

All Tech is Human has been committed to building the next stage for almost five years. We know that there is a “tech problem” and we understand many of the root causes. So now what? The hard part is uniting stakeholders, disciplines, and perspectives in order to understand values, trade-offs, and the best path forward. That’s the next stage – and why need your input to help us co-create a better tech future

Source: All Tech Is Human Website

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Videos

Karen Hao interview about EMPIRE OF AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI

May 23, 2025 (45:00)
By: All Tech Is Human

Karen Hao, author of EMPIRE OF AI, recently appeared on All Tech Is Human’s livestream series. She was interviewed by Rebekah Tweed (Exec Director of All Tech Is Human).

Learn more and grab your copy of EMPIRE OF AI at EmpireOfAI.com. Learn about All Tech Is Human at AllTechIsHuman.org or see our mission at bit.ly/ATIH2025.

The culmination of over 300 interviews and 7 years of wrestling with this question, EMPIRE OF AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao is a call to action that offers the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding this moment: the tech elite’s extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy.

Karen Hao is an award-winning journalist covering the impacts of artificial intelligence on society. She writes for publications including The Atlantic and leads the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight Series, a program training thousands of journalists around the world on how to cover AI. She was formerly a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, covering American and Chinese tech companies, and a senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review. Her work is regularly taught in universities and cited by governments. She has received numerous accolades for her coverage, including an American Humanist Media Award and an American National Magazine Award for Journalists Under 30. She received her Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from MIT.

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Solving hard problems requires a better approach.

​All Tech Is Human moves at the speed of tech while tackling the world’s thorniest tech & society issues. With a network of over 50k individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia, our organization is committed to collective understanding, involvement, and action. ​

Through our whole-of-ecosystem approach and three pillars of activities (community-building, educational resources, careers), All Tech Is Human surfaces important values, tensions, tradeoffs, and best practices to co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest. Activities include our curated gatherings (NYC, SF, DC, London), Slack community of over 12k members across 105 countries, our popular Responsible Tech Job Board, and our annual Responsible Tech Guide that has defined the field and seeded the next generation of organizations and leaders. ​

Our organization is establishing the relational infrastructure for the Responsible Tech ecosystem, provides a conducive environment for multistakeholder solution-making, and has created a distribution network to rapidly share new concepts and best practices throughout the ecosystem. ​

Learn more at alltechishuman.org.

Safety by Design panel conversation: the role of civil society in making impact & mobilizing change

April 29, 2025 (34:38)
By: All Tech Is Human

All Tech Is Human’s Safety by Design: The Role of Civil Society panel with David Sullivan (Digital Trust & Safety Partnership), Merve Lapus (Common Sense Media), Suzi Ragheb (Integrity Institute), and Sean Killingsworth (Design It for Us).

David Sullivan is the founding Executive Director of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership, where he leads a unique initiative focused on promoting a safer and more trustworthy internet. An experienced human rights and technology policy practitioner, he brings together unlikely allies to solve global challenges related to rights, security, and democracy in the digital age.

David is a co-chair of the World Economic Forum Global Coalition for Digital Safety, a member of the Institute for Security and Technology’s Trust & Safety Advisory Group, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Silicon Flatirons research center at the University of Colorado Law School. He has published extensively on technology, security, and human rights, with commentary appearing in Slate, Tech Policy Press, and Lawfare.

Merve Lapus is a Results-driven education strategist with a track record of expanding reach and impact in K12 learning environments. As Vice President of Outreach & Engagement at Common Sense Education, he’s led initiatives that have reached over 90,000 schools and supported 1.3 million educators. This includes overseeing a regional team driving community engagement, access, and professional development across school community stakeholders including district adoption, regional implementation, parent/family engagement, strategic marketing, and community development.

Merve has over 25 years of experience driving education technology initiatives across school programs, and building educator confidence through professional learning, and strategic implementation. Merve also sits on a number of steering committees addressing school climate and policy, and currently sits on the Marketing and Communications Board for the University of San Francisco (USF), The Alameda Health System Foundation Board, and the Executive Board for the Children’s Creativity Museum of San Francisco.

Seán Killingsworth, Organizing Director (New Member Engagement), Design It For Us.

Seán Killingsworth is the 22 year old founder of The Reconnect Movement. Reconnect is a student-led club that hosts phone-free social events at universities. Reconnect is currently established on 3 campuses and expanding. At 17, Seán began speaking about the effect of social media and phones on Gen Z. He has spoken at Virginia Tech, The Dr. Phillips Center in Orlando, Dopamind, The Suicide Prevention Center of Virginia, and guest lectured at Georgetown University. Seán launched the weekly Power Hour to organize citizens and pass the Kids Online Safety Act. Endorsed by the Anxious Generation and Accountable Tech, the Power Hour generated thousands of letters and calls to key legislators. He is an organizing director for Design It for Us where he will continue to advocate for State and Federal legislation. Seán hosts the Be The Oasis Podcast. His first book Be The Oasis will be published Spring 2026.

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All Tech Is Human moves at the speed of tech while tackling the world’s thorniest tech & society issues. With a network of over 50k individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia, our organization is committed to collective understanding, involvement, and action. Through our whole-of-ecosystem approach and three pillars of activities (community-building, educational resources, careers), All Tech Is Human surfaces important values, tensions, trade-offs, and best practices to co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest. Noted activities include our curated gatherings (NYC, SF, DC, London), Slack community of over 12k members across 105 countries, our popular Responsible Tech Job Board, and our yearly Responsible Tech Guide that has defined the field and seeded the next generation of organizations and leaders

Our organization brings together expertise, a sandbox for solution-making, and a structure for socialization and mobilization. Learn more at AllTechIsHuman.org