Camille Stewart Gloster profile interview

Camille Stewart Gloster is the CEO and Principal of CAS Strategies. We recently asked Camille a few questions for our latest Responsible Tech Guide. You can read the full interview below.

“Responsible Tech cannot succeed if it ignores the lived realities of those most impacted. Inclusion must be more than symbolic; it requires building structures for sustained engagement, co-creation, and accountability.”

All Tech Is Human tackles complex technology and society challenges like misinformation, hate speech, and child safety online. What do you think is the most pressing tech and society issue today? 

The most pressing issue isn’t one technology or harm, but the systemic fragility created when they all collide. AI, misinformation, child safety, online hate, and weak security don’t operate in silos—they compound and amplify each other. We’re stacking powerful tools on brittle foundations: low digital literacy, outdated governance, and incentives that reward speed over safety. Without stronger safety, security, and resilience at the core—and closer collaboration among practitioners in each field—every new innovation risks deepening fractures in society instead of repairing them.

Describe your current role. How does your work address complex technology and society challenges? 

I lead CAS Strategies, an advisory firm at the intersection of emerging technologies, cybersecurity, and society. My work focuses on helping companies, governments, nonprofits, and communities adopt AI securely and responsibly. That means building governance frameworks that bridge safety and security, strengthening resilience, and ensuring equity are not afterthoughts.

Technology doesn’t just create technical risks; it reshapes power, work, and trust. To address that, I translate across ecosystems: helping policymakers design durable governance, advising nonprofits that advocate for vulnerable communities, guiding enterprises through AI adoption, and working with VCs to ensure startups bake responsibility into their products and growth strategies. I also co-develop practical resources for families, giving parents and caregivers tools to help children build digital fluency and discernment, a reminder that responsible technology begins in our homes and communities, not just in boardrooms and policy circles.

By bridging policy, business, and community perspectives, I work to close the gap between innovation and safeguards. The goal is simple: ensure that as technology advances, society gains, not loses, agency, safety, and security.

Tell us about your career journey. What key steps brought you to your current role, and what guidance would you give someone following a similar path? 

I started out as a kid learning to code and tinkering with tech, fascinated by how things worked and how much power technology had to shape the world around me. But I decided I wanted to be a lawyer, drawn not only to questions of rights and responsibilities, but also to the challenge of navigating complex problems where rules, people, and systems collide. That choice ended up shaping my career in ways I couldn’t have predicted.

After law school, I went first to a cybersecurity company, where I saw how industry responds to threats in real time. Then I joined DHS, working on national security and technology policy. From there, I moved into cyber risk advisory and global tech innovation scouting at Deloitte. I then joined Google, first as Head of Security Product Policy and Election Integrity, leading efforts on trust & safety for Google Play and Android, and later as Global Head of Product Security Strategy, leading federated security and trust efforts across Alphabet. That led me back to public service at the White House, where I helped design national cybersecurity and AI strategies, and later, I built AI resilience programs at CrowdStrike.

Now as the founder of CAS Strategies, I advise companies, governments, nonprofits, and investors on navigating emerging technologies responsibly. My advice for others is this: don’t silo yourself. The best work in Responsible Tech happens at the intersections. Translate across disciplines, and never lose sight of the people technology is meant to serve.

What are the biggest barriers you’ve encountered in advancing responsible technology within your field, and how have you addressed them? 

One of the biggest barriers has been the persistent misalignment of incentives. Companies are rewarded for speed, scale, and market share—not for embedding safety, security, or equity from the start. That pressure often sidelines responsible technology practices until after harms emerge. Another barrier is translation. Policymakers, technologists, and business leaders frequently talk past each other, which slows action and fragments accountability.

A more savvy consumer could help move the market in the right direction. But that kind of long-term investment in consumer education rarely aligns with government or private sector incentives, so it often becomes an afterthought, at best inconsistent, at worst incomplete. I tried to address that gap in government and continue to do that work on the side, because individuals have more power than they realize.

I’ve also tackled these challenges by reframing responsibility as a value creator, not a compliance burden. At Google and CrowdStrike, I made the business case that security and responsibility drive trust and resilience. In government, I worked to embed safety and security into innovation strategies. And today, through CAS Strategies, I help organizations operationalize responsible AI in ways that align with business goals while advancing social legitimacy.

All Tech Is Human values diverse perspectives to address complex technology and society challenges. What backgrounds or voices do you think are underrepresented in the Responsible Tech space?

Indigenous voices are profoundly underrepresented in the Responsible Tech space. Technology is reshaping land, identity, and governance in ways that directly affect Indigenous communities, yet their perspectives rarely shape the policies or products being deployed. When I served in the White House and in other roles, I worked to bring Indigenous leaders into the conversation, and I continue to seek meaningful partnerships and to learn to be a better ally.

The same is true for Black and Latino communities, which often experience the sharpest edge of technological harms—algorithmic bias, digital exclusion, surveillance—without having proportional influence over how technology is designed or governed. These gaps only deepen at the intersections of race, gender, and gender identity, where women and gender minorities face compounding risks and even less visibility in shaping solutions.

Responsible Tech cannot succeed if it ignores the lived realities of those most impacted. Inclusion must be more than symbolic; it requires building structures for sustained engagement, co-creation, and accountability. My goal has been to use my platform to widen the table, not just take a seat at it.