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Who Controls AI Safety? Big Tech, Power, & Accountability | Dr. Rumman Chowdhury

Who Controls AI Safety? Big Tech, Power, & Accountability | Dr. Rumman Chowdhury

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AI isn’t just helping us. It’s deciding.Who gets hired.Who gets flagged.What gets seen.And increasingly, what counts as “safe.”In this episode of Disruptor Confessions, John Ayers sits down with Dr. Rumman Chowdhury — TIME100 AI honoree, former Director of ML Ethics at Twitter, and global leader in responsible AI — to unpack how AI safety is being defined, who benefits, and why regular people are being left out of the conversation.Inside this episode:🔹 The Lobbying Shift — Why today’s AI companies are racing to DC to define regulation on their own terms🔹 Red Teaming Reality — How human-centered testing reveals harms technical labs miss🔹 The Trust Collapse — Why AI is accelerating the erosion of trust across media, institutions, and society🔹 Inside Twitter — First-hand lessons from the Elon Musk takeover and what “fiduciary duty” really means🔹 Right to Repair AI — Why we may need the right to challenge automated decisions that affect our livesThis isn’t a sci-fi debate.It’s about power, governance, and who gets a voice as AI reshapes society.About Our GuestDr. Rumman Chowdhury is a pioneer in applied algorithmic ethics, former Director of META at Twitter, Harvard Fellow for Responsible AI, and founder of a public benefit corporation building infrastructure for inclusive AI evaluations.🚀 JOIN THE DISRUPTION COMMUNITY Stay ahead of the curve and go deeper into the ethical and strategic dimensions of tech disruption: 👉 Subscribe to THE BRIEFING on Substack: https://disruptorconfessions.substack.com 👉 Visit Disruptor Confessions: https://disruptorconfessions.com/ 👉 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/disruptorconfessions/👉 Connect with John Ayers on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnlayers/

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