IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2024

Rumman Chowdhury is a data scientist and social scientist. She is CEO of the tech nonprofit Humane Intelligence, which builds a community of practice around evaluations of AI models, as well as the United States Science Envoy for Artificial Intelligence.

Chowdhury is also Responsible AI Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Previously, she was director of the ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability team at Twitter, as well as the Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence. She was named one of Time's 100 most Influential People in AI, BBC’s 100 Women, Worthy Magazine's Top 100, recognized as one of the Bay Area’s top 40 under 40 and named by Forbes as one of Five Who are Shaping AI.

Chowdhury holds two undergraduate degrees from MIT, a master's degree in quantitative methods of the social sciences from Columbia University, and a doctorate in political science from the University of California, San Diego.

Jenn Louie is the founder of the Moral Innovation Lab, based on her research initiated at Harvard Divinity School, and a product manager at the Applied Social Media Lab. Her research is a compassionate interrogation into how technology is shaping our moral futures and how conflict and social inequities and are recreated through unexamined moral inheritances that get translated into tech governance and design.

She is an advocate for improving moral literacy for technologists and believes in cultivating innovation as a moral practice. Her Berkman Klein research interests lie at the intersection of moral futurism, AI governance, design systems, youth and media, social media governance and the compounded impact on global affairs, society and diplomacy.

Prior to attending Harvard Divinity School, Louie served as the former head of business integrity operations for the Pages, Groups, Messenger and Events platforms at Facebook. She previously served as the first head of trust & safety at Meetup.com, and established her career at Google in product policy and then in monetization strategy for new products.

During the pandemic, Louie co-founded Year Zero Studios, a social impact tech company and incubator focused on the future of work and public interest technologies. She is also the co-founder of the Spiritual Care Project.

Louie is an industry expert in online user policy, content moderation, scaled enforcement operations for social media, product integrity, building internal governance tools and dashboards, and community support operations. She has spoken on online risk, tech governance and tech policy at SXSW, IDEO, Techweek NYC, the NYPD Cyber Intelligence & Counterterrorism Conference, and the Microsoft Social Computing Symposium.

Casey Newton is the founder and editor of Platformer, an independent publication devoted to exploring the intersection of technology and democracy. Of Platformer, it is said “there’s no better way to understand how social networks and the modern internet shapes our lives.” Always evolving with the news, Newton’s current work focuses on the rise of artificial intelligence, how social media affects human behavior and politics, government regulation of Big Tech, as well as the declining trust in government and ongoing threats to democracy. He also co-hosts Hard Fork, the critically acclaimed New York Times podcast about the future that is already here, alongside Kevin Roose.

Offering a mix of original reporting, analysis, and commentary, Platformer serves as a daily live blog for this tumultuous period in the history of technology and governance. Over 150,00 people — including big tech executives and their counterparts in academia, government, and journalism — trust the newsletter to keep them informed on the industry’s most important developments of the day. Nothing quite captures the significance of the newsletter to the tech community more than the anecdote that many Twitter employees, during Elon Musk’s takeover, learned of their layoffs from Platformer, not through internal means.

In 2020, Newton was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for his series of investigative reports about content moderation that lead to a $52 million settlement for Facebook moderators who developed PTSD on the job.

Prior to founding Platformer in 2020, Newton spent 10 years covering Silicon Valley for The Verge, CNET, and the San Francisco Chronicle. While at The Verge, he authored The Interface, a daily newsletter with over 20,000 subscribers, and hosted the Converge podcast, offering humorous and revealing conversations.

Kevin Roose is an award-winning technology columnist for The New York Times and the bestselling author of three books, “Futureproof,” “Young Money,” and “The Unlikely Disciple.” His column, “The Shift”, examines the intersection of tech, business, and culture. He is a recurring guest on The Daily and appears regularly on leading TV and radio shows. He writes and speaks frequently on top¬ics including automation and artificial intelligence, social media, disinformation and cybersecurity, and digital wellness.

Worried that he was not ready for a world dominated by AI, automation, and mind-morphing algorithms, Roose decided to do what reporters do: he interviewed experts, read a ton of books and papers, and went in search of answers. The result was his book, “Futureproof,” a guide to surviving the technological future. Originally published in 2021, “Futureproof” was rereleased in late 2023 to address the more recent trends in AI and technology and how to work with them rather than against them.

Roose is the host of two podcasts of the New York Times: “Hard Fork,” a weekly chat show with Casey Newton about the wild frontier of technology, and “Rabbit Hole,” an eight-part series released in 2020 about how the internet is influencing our beliefs and behavior.

Roose’s first job in journalism was unique: as a sophomore in college, he took a semester off and went undercover at Liberty University, Jerry Falwell’s evangelical Christian school. His goal was to figure out what life was like among people who he considered his polar opposite. From his experience came his first book, “The Unlikely Disciple,” a memoir of a strange and enlightening semester “abroad.”

After college, Roose joined The New York Times, followed by New York magazine, and wrote a second book: “Young Money,” which chronicled the lives of eight junior Wall Street investment bankers right after the 2008 financial crisis. Before rejoining The Times in 2017, Kevin produced and co-hosted a TV documentary series about technology, called “Real Future.”

At The Times, Kevin writes about technology and its effects on society. Recently, that has meant a lot of coverage of companies like Facebook and YouTube, as well as profiles of internet person-alities like PewDiePie, and social phenomena like online radicalization and workplace automation.