Rumman Chowdhury
CEO & Co-founder, Humane Intelligence
About
Rumman Chowdhury is the CEO and co-founder of Humane Intelligence, a nonprofit advancing community-driven AI auditing and evaluation. She previously served as Engineering Director and META team lead at Twitter, where she led work on machine learning ethics and algorithmic accountability, and as Managing Director of Responsible AI at Accenture. She holds a PhD in Political Science from UC San Diego and serves as the U.S. Science Envoy for Artificial Intelligence and Responsible AI Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. Named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI and BBC's 100 Women, she coined the term 'moral outsourcing' to describe society's tendency to blame technology rather than its creators for harm.
Key Contributions
- Founded Humane Intelligence for community-driven AI auditing
- Led Twitter's Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency and Accountability team
- Coined the term 'moral outsourcing' in AI ethics discourse
- Appointed U.S. Science Envoy for Artificial Intelligence
- Named TIME 100 Most Influential People in AI and BBC 100 Women
Videos & Interviews
AI vs. Human Jobs Ft. Andrew Yang, Chris Hughes, Simon Johnson and Rumman Chowdhury
Panel discussion on AI's impact on employment and economic inequality
Watch on YouTubeMoral Outsourcing: Humanity in the Age of AI
TEDx talk on why we must not detach humans from the machines they create
Watch on TED
