Algorithmic Justice with Rebekah Tweed

And then most recently I've joined the Algorithmic Justice League, you know, looking at much more deeply into biometric technologies and the just the algorithmic justice space more broadly.

Yeah, I love this.

You start out this discussion with a punch at Taylor Swift, which is a bold decision in 2026, just after her wedding took over.

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can't help it.

It's a part of my story.

So it comes out even right after she gets married.

So you actually just started to set up this kind of segue that I wanted to take with you, which is that, you know, people hear responsible AI and they may picture like policy documents or committees or, you know, very serious people saying guardrails a lot, right? But what does responsible AI mean to you in 2026 in actual human terms?

Yes, no, it's a great question.

And I think really, fundamentally, it's about agency.

So responsibly, I can take a lot of different forms, but that's where I would put the core.

I think it's about rejecting this idea that our tech future is inevitable and that it's top down, that it's being handed to us and our only job is to just adapt to it.

And I think everything else in responsible AI is really downstream of that.

So I do want to be fair to that narrow definition of responsible AI, because it's not wrong, it is usually referring to a set of principles, you know, you have, you know, civil society articulating these principles, and then, you know, industry practitioners kind of operationalizing it.

And you have things like fairness and transparency and accountability and privacy, and that is real work and that matters.

But I think if you're zeroing in only on that, you're missing the purpose because underneath those principles, what we're actually doing is deciding how to understand and evaluate the way that AI impacts real people.

and how we have an impact on that and how we shape our own tech future.

So I think it is a two-way relationship.

The tech is acting on us, but we also get to act on it.

And responsible AI is kind of what I would say is the name for insisting on that second direction.