Rumman Chowdhury

Data scientist, fondatrice de Humane Intelligence et ancienne responsable de l’équipe d’éthique de l’apprentissage automatique de Twitter, elle soutient que les dommages de l’IA sont aujourd’hui le produit de la négligence des entreprises et que la réponse est le test indépendant, le red-teaming et la responsabilité juridique.

Fonctions

2017 – 2020Global Lead for Responsible AI, AccentureEnd year inferred from the founding of her audit start-up Parity in 2020; not independently verified.Source →
févr. 2021 – nov. 2022Director of Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency and Accountability (META), TwitterRan the first industry algorithmic bias bounty; the team was dissolved after Elon Musk's takeover.Source →
2023 – aujourd’huiResponsible AI Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard UniversitySource →
mai 2023 – 2025Co-founder and CEO, Humane Intelligence (nonprofit)Stepped down as CEO of the nonprofit in 2025; Mala Kumar became executive director.Source →
2024 – aujourd’huiU.S. Science Envoy for Artificial Intelligence, U.S. Department of StateNamed in the 2024 cohort under the Biden administration; end date not verified.Source →
2025 – aujourd’huiCEO and Founder, Humane Intelligence PBCPublic benefit corporation building infrastructure for AI evaluations; start date not independently verified.Source →

Au registre

20 août 2026 · Tribune · MIT Technology Review
Discussing AI in anthropomorphic terms is a trap, distorting a legal system intended to protect us into one that protects corporate interests.
CEO and Founder, Humane Intelligence PBC à l’époque
Argues AI systems must stay classed as products under liability law so companies answer for harms.
Debates over AI consciousness are a trap →
4 juin 2025 · Discours · Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
don't delegate your thinking to AI
CEO and Founder, Humane Intelligence PBC à l’époque
Don't delegate your thinking to AI, warns CEO of Humane Intelligence →
17 févr. 2025 · Tribune · Compiler
Without careful attention to how this tech is deployed, we run the risk of using the Global Majority as a testing ground for incomplete AI solutions.
CEO and Founder, Humane Intelligence PBC à l’époque
‘AI for Good’ shouldn’t become the new innovation arbitrage →
2 oct. 2024 · Entretien · The UNESCO Courier
We will enter a world that is post-truth, where nothing we see online is believable or trustworthy.
U.S. Science Envoy for Artificial Intelligence, U.S. Department of State à l’époque
Rumman Chowdhury: “We could be entering a post-truth world” →
22 juin 2023 · Audition · U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Artificial intelligence is not inherently neutral, trustworthy, nor beneficial. This technology is not a mystery, it is not magic, and it is not alive. While it has immense capability, like many other high-potential technologies, it can also be used for harm by both malicious and well-intentioned actors.
Co-founder and CEO, Humane Intelligence (nonprofit) à l’époque
Written testimony; the document header misprints the hearing date as 22 July 2023.
Artificial Intelligence: Advancing Innovation Towards the National Interest →