The Responsible Tech Guide 2026 is All Tech is Human’s flagship resource and an essential roadmap for navigating the Responsible Tech ecosystem. First released in 2020, a new version arrives every Fall. It offers advice, insights, frameworks, and actionable career pathways. Designed for the broad range of individuals working to tackle thorny tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest.
This year’s Responsible Tech Guide features profile interviews with:
- Ayah Bdeir, Chief Executive Officer of Current AI
- Baratunde Thurston, Writer, Speaker, Host, Earthling at Life With Machines
- Baroness Joanna Shields, CEO of Precognition
- Bo Young Lee 이보영, Strategic Advisor at AI4ALL
- Emanuel Moss, PhD., Responsible AI Program Manager, Intel, Inc.
- Jennifer Siebel Newsom, First Partner of California, Co-Founder of California Partners Project, Founder of the Representation Project, Award-Winning Filmmaker
- Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Corporate Vice President, Trusted Technology Group at Microsoft
- Katie Harbath, CEO of Anchor Change
- Katy Knight, President & Executive Director of the Siegel Family Endowment
- Kevin Barenblat, Co-Founder & President at Fast Forward
- Michael Preston, Executive Director, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
- Michele Lawrence Jawando, CEO at Omidyar Network
- Michelle Culver, Founder at The Rithm Project
- Nathan C. Walker, Founder at the AI Ethics Lab at Rutgers University
- Neha Shukla, Founder & Executive Director at Innovation for Everyone
- Roy Austin, Jr., Director, Howard Law Artificial Intelligence Initiative, Howard University School of Law
Given the prevailing narrative of AI hype and doom, this year’s Responsible Tech Guide emphasizes the role of our human agency in crafting a better tech future. We see this as a DIM lens (deterministic, inevitable, mystical) that views technology as a magical, unstoppable force. It’s not.
All tech is human, after all.
This year’s Responsible Tech Guide also mentions several activities and resources for you to get more involved with the Responsible Tech movement. They include:
- Joining the All Tech is Human’s Slack community of 15k members across 122 countries.
- Attending our Responsible Tech Summit on October 29 at The Times Center in Manhattan (livestreamed as well)
- Reading All Tech is Human’s new white papers
- Utilizing the Responsible Tech Job Board
- Taking All Tech is Human’s Responsible AI courses
- Joining or starting an ATIHx gathering, independently organized community meet-ups happening all over (3 were held just this week)
- Collaborating with All Tech Is Human on a future workshop and white paper
- Videos from Tech Together: Move Fast & Tell Jokes….because right now we need both laughter and a narrative change.
