Karen Hao, author of EMPIRE OF AI, recently appeared on All Tech Is Human’s livestream series. She was interviewed by Rebekah Tweed (Exec Director of All Tech Is Human).

Learn more and grab your copy of EMPIRE OF AI at EmpireOfAI.com. Learn about All Tech Is Human at AllTechIsHuman.org or see our mission at bit.ly/ATIH2025.

The culmination of over 300 interviews and 7 years of wrestling with this question, EMPIRE OF AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao is a call to action that offers the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding this moment: the tech elite’s extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy.

Karen Hao is an award-winning journalist covering the impacts of artificial intelligence on society. She writes for publications including The Atlantic and leads the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight Series, a program training thousands of journalists around the world on how to cover AI. She was formerly a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, covering American and Chinese tech companies, and a senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review. Her work is regularly taught in universities and cited by governments. She has received numerous accolades for her coverage, including an American Humanist Media Award and an American National Magazine Award for Journalists Under 30. She received her Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from MIT.

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All Tech Is Human’s Safety by Design: The Role of Civil Society panel with David Sullivan (Digital Trust & Safety Partnership), Merve Lapus (Common Sense Media), Suzi Ragheb (Integrity Institute), and Sean Killingsworth (Design It for Us).

David Sullivan is the founding Executive Director of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership, where he leads a unique initiative focused on promoting a safer and more trustworthy internet. An experienced human rights and technology policy practitioner, he brings together unlikely allies to solve global challenges related to rights, security, and democracy in the digital age.

David is a co-chair of the World Economic Forum Global Coalition for Digital Safety, a member of the Institute for Security and Technology’s Trust & Safety Advisory Group, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Silicon Flatirons research center at the University of Colorado Law School. He has published extensively on technology, security, and human rights, with commentary appearing in Slate, Tech Policy Press, and Lawfare.

Merve Lapus is a Results-driven education strategist with a track record of expanding reach and impact in K12 learning environments. As Vice President of Outreach & Engagement at Common Sense Education, he’s led initiatives that have reached over 90,000 schools and supported 1.3 million educators. This includes overseeing a regional team driving community engagement, access, and professional development across school community stakeholders including district adoption, regional implementation, parent/family engagement, strategic marketing, and community development.

Merve has over 25 years of experience driving education technology initiatives across school programs, and building educator confidence through professional learning, and strategic implementation. Merve also sits on a number of steering committees addressing school climate and policy, and currently sits on the Marketing and Communications Board for the University of San Francisco (USF), The Alameda Health System Foundation Board, and the Executive Board for the Children’s Creativity Museum of San Francisco.

Seán Killingsworth, Organizing Director (New Member Engagement), Design It For Us.

Seán Killingsworth is the 22 year old founder of The Reconnect Movement. Reconnect is a student-led club that hosts phone-free social events at universities. Reconnect is currently established on 3 campuses and expanding. At 17, Seán began speaking about the effect of social media and phones on Gen Z. He has spoken at Virginia Tech, The Dr. Phillips Center in Orlando, Dopamind, The Suicide Prevention Center of Virginia, and guest lectured at Georgetown University. Seán launched the weekly Power Hour to organize citizens and pass the Kids Online Safety Act. Endorsed by the Anxious Generation and Accountable Tech, the Power Hour generated thousands of letters and calls to key legislators. He is an organizing director for Design It for Us where he will continue to advocate for State and Federal legislation. Seán hosts the Be The Oasis Podcast. His first book Be The Oasis will be published Spring 2026.

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All Tech Is Human moves at the speed of tech while tackling the world’s thorniest tech & society issues. With a network of over 50k individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia, our organization is committed to collective understanding, involvement, and action. Through our whole-of-ecosystem approach and three pillars of activities (community-building, educational resources, careers), All Tech Is Human surfaces important values, tensions, trade-offs, and best practices to co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest. Noted activities include our curated gatherings (NYC, SF, DC, London), Slack community of over 12k members across 105 countries, our popular Responsible Tech Job Board, and our yearly Responsible Tech Guide that has defined the field and seeded the next generation of organizations and leaders

Our organization brings together expertise, a sandbox for solution-making, and a structure for socialization and mobilization. Learn more at AllTechIsHuman.org

KEYNOTE SPEECHES:

Sustainability and futures. Moving beyond “The Natural” and “The Artificial” Dr. Erik F. Øverland, President of World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), Germany

1:02:40 The Transetarian Revolution: The Power of Ageless Futures CEO Rosa Alegria, Perspektiva, Brazil