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Rumman Chowdhury is a leading practitioner in responsible AI. Dr. Chowdhury is a globally recognized expert in responsible AI, governance, and algorithmic accountability. 

She is the CEO and co-founder of Humane Intelligence, a nonprofit advancing community-driven AI auditing and evaluation. Appointed as the U.S. Science Envoy for Artificial Intelligence, she engages in global AI governance efforts with a focus on emerging markets. Previously, she led AI ethics teams at Twitter and Accenture, pioneering enterprise-level AI risk mitigation tools. Rumman is also a trusted advisor to international organizations on AI policy and ethics.

Projects & Tools

Responsible Generative AI: Accountable Technical Oversight

Generative AI is at a tipping point of adoption and impact, much like that of machine learning and AI years ago. But this time the stakes, regulatory environment, potential social…

Community

Business Insider

Don't delegate your thinking to AI, warns CEO of Humane Intelligence

Rumman Chowdhury cautions that, no matter how useful AI can be, users shouldn't have it do their thinking for them.

Jun 4, 2025
Science Friday

What Artificial General Intelligence Could Mean For Our Future

Rumman Chowdhury joins Science Friday to discuss the state of artificial general intelligence.

Apr 4, 2025
Compiler

‘AI for Good’ shouldn’t become the new innovation arbitrage

"Without the appropriate safeguards, AI for Good initiatives can be easily manipulated to serve as a new method of innovation arbitrage."

Feb 21, 2025
Compiler

'AI for Good' shouldn't become the new innovation arbitrage

Knight Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury warns that “AI for Good” initiatives can exploit under-resourced communities as test grounds for unproven tech.

Feb 17, 2025
Foreign Policy Magazine

What the Global AI Governance Conversation Misses

The perspectives and needs of global majority countries have not been fully accommodated.

"As developers and stewards of AI technology, we have a critical responsibility. We must advance AI capabilities and simultaneously develop robust safeguards to protect users,…

Sep 19, 2024
ABC AU

Developing a responsible use of AI policy

BKC Affiliate Rumman Chowdhury emphasizes the importance of community engagement while engaging a conversation on responsible integration of AI.

Mar 25, 2024
Foreign Policy

What AI Will Do to Elections

“It just makes the generation and dissemination of very realistic deepfakes and realistic-seeming deepfakes much, much easier,” Rumman Chowdhury told Foreign Policy when…

Jan 3, 2024
Techtonic

Techtonic: AI’s inequality problem

Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury discusses the worry that we are giving the keys to our society to a small group of companies that have shown they cannot be fully trusted.

Dec 11, 2023
UNESCO

Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in an Era of Generative AI

Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury explores technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) in an era of generative AI.

Nov 16, 2023
Harvard Business Review

Azeem's Picks: How to Practice Responsible AI with Dr. Rumman Chowdhurry

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury discusses how to act responsibly with AI development.

Nov 1, 2023

Threats like AI-aided bioweapons confound policymakers

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury comments on the EU’s Digital Services Act.

Sep 12, 2023
The Washington Post

Meet the hackers who are trying to make AI go rogue

BKC Affiliate Rumman Chowdhury explains how embedded harms and biases complicate AI system red teaming efforts.

Aug 8, 2023
POLITICO

Bias in AI is real. But it doesn’t have to exist.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury shares thoughts about her hopes and fears for AI.

Jul 14, 2023
POLITICO

5 questions for Rumman Chowdhury

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury answers questions about technology and the future.

Jul 7, 2023
CNBC

A.I. has a discrimination problem. In banking, the consequences can be severe

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury comments on how the AI systems in banking are biased against marginalized communities.

Jun 23, 2023
The Hill

Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be inhumane

Sue Hendrickson and BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury write about the role of global governance alongside the development of AI.

Jun 14, 2023
The Guardian

‘I do not think ethical surveillance can exist’: Rumman Chowdhury on accountability in AI

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury is interviewed about bridging the gap between people and technology.

May 29, 2023
KQED

Artificial Intelligence is Booming, How Should it Be Regulated?

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury discusses ideas for regulating AI with KQED. 

May 8, 2023
WIRED

AI Desperately Needs Global Oversight

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury advocates for global oversight of AI. 

Apr 11, 2023
WIRED

Platforms Are Fighting Online Abuse—but Not the Right Kind

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury co-writes a piece on the shortfalls of platforms fighting online abuse.

Feb 28, 2023
The Atlantic

I Watched Elon Musk Kill Twitter’s Culture From the Inside

Rumman Chowdhury writes about her time at Twitter as the engineering director of the META team...

Feb 17, 2023
Wired

The Scramble to Save Twitter’s Research From Elon Musk

"We were rightfully worried about what this leadership change would entail...There's a lot of ideology and misunderstanding about the kind of work ethics teams do as being part of…

Feb 15, 2023
Science Friday

ChatGPT And Beyond: What’s Behind The AI Boom?

"...what are the kinds of harms and stereotypes that exist in society that these machines can pick up on? These models are simply reflecting the data that is being put into them,…

Feb 10, 2023

Events

Event
May 22, 2023 @ 12:45 PM

Enabling Accountable Technical Oversight of Generative AI

JOIN US FOR  A VIRTUAL CONVERSATION WITH JULIA ANGWIN, BRANDON SILVERMAN, AND RUMMAN CHOWDHURY FOR THE THIRD IN A SERIES ON ACCOUNTABLE TECHNICAL OVERSIGHT OF GENERATIVE AI

Join Julia Angwin, investigative journalist and New York Times contributing Opinion writer, and Brandon Silverman, policy expert on data sharing and transparency and founder of…

Event
May 8, 2023 @ 1:00 PM

How is Generative AI changing the landscape of AI harms?

Join us for  a virtual conversation with Dr. Rumman Chowdhury and Reva Schwartz for the first in a series on accountable technical oversight of generative AI

Join us for  the first in a series of virtual conversations on accountable technical oversight of generative AI. On Monday, May 8 from 1-1:30 ET, Dr. Rumman Chowdhury and Reva…