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 to make AI red-teaming and auditing participatory rather than limited to labs and consultants
- Led Twitter's Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency and Accountability team before it was dissolved after the Musk acquisition
- Built responsible-AI practice in industry before the current generative-AI governance wave, including leadership at Accenture
- Popularized 'moral outsourcing' to describe blaming algorithms while ignoring the people and institutions deploying them
- Serves as U.S. Science Envoy for AI, connecting responsible-AI practice with international technology diplomacy
- Her work pushes AI accountability toward communities, though community audits still face hard questions about power, access, and enforcement
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
View DetailsMoral Outsourcing: Humanity in the Age of AI
TEDx talk on why we must not detach humans from the machines they create
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