David founded All Tech Is Human in 2018, seeing an immense need to strengthen the nascent Responsible Tech movement and ecosystem to tackle wicked tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest. The organization has become synonymous with the Responsible Tech movement, uniting thousands of individuals across the globe.

While there were ample organizations focused on building awareness around complex tech & society problems and understanding root causes, David felt there was a strong need to develop a conducive environment for knowledge-sharing and collaboration and build a strong ecosystem that welcomed more perspectives, disciplines, and lived experiences. This has since evolved in All Tech Is Human’s unique grassroots-power model to rapidly distribute power and ideas across an interconnected multistakeholder, multidisciplinary network. Read About it Here

The three major issues that David saw were:

1. We move too slowly, with the speed of innovation greatly outpacing the slowness of consideration. There is a need for an approach that can move at the speed of tech.

2. We don’t leverage the intelligence from the hundreds of civil society organizations, key researchers, academics, industry, and thousands of individuals from a broad range of backgrounds that have valuable insight and perspectives. There is a need to leverage collective intelligence, not just rely on select thought leaders.

3. We don’t have the right mix of people involved in the process. Complex tech & society issues require a diverse range of participants to understand values, best practices, tensions, and trade-offs. There is a need to greatly diversify the traditional tech pipeline.

David’s work building a large and diverse community of individuals coming together to tackle wicked problems was recently covered in the MIT Technology Review and will be an entire chapter in Greg Epstein's upcoming book, Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation.

David is also an international speaker and regular commentator on increasing ethical considerations regarding emerging technology, improving social media platforms, and the need for a collaborative, multi-stakeholder, and multidisciplinary approach to building a tech future that is aligned with the public interest. His commentary has been featured in The Guardian, TODAY show, BBC World News, MSNBC, Fast Company, Associated Press, LA Times, USA Today, and many more. He has been on stage at Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management, Princeton University, NATO's Stratcom Summit (Istanbul), TechChill (Latvia), The Next Web (Amsterdam), FutureNow (Slovakia), Infoshare (Poland), and more.

His work with All Tech Is Human is focused on creating a better approach to tackling the thorniest issues in tech and society. This approach involves leveraging the collective intelligence of the community, diversifying the underlying tech pipeline, and being able to move at the speed of tech. Outside of All Tech Is Human, David sits on TikTok’s Content Advisory Council (US) and is also a member of Teleperformance's Trust & Safety Advisory Council. He appears in the recently-released documentary, TikTok, Boom.

The main throughline throughout David’s work throughout the past decade is that we need a collaborative, multi-stakeholder, and multidisciplinary approach to build a tech future that is aligned with the public interest. 

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