Here is a tailored invitation for Timnit Gebru, positioned around ethical AI, AI harms, accountability, labor, extraction, and community-centered alternatives.
Dear Dr. Gebru,
I hope this finds you well.
I am writing to invite you to participate in MOBILIZED: CONVERGENCE, a new global media-and-action experience from Mobilized News designed to bring together the people, ideas, tools, and public-interest solutions needed to redesign systems for life.
The purpose of CONVERGENCE is simple but urgent:
How do we move from systems that extract, divide, confuse, and control — to systems that inform, connect, restore, and empower?
Your work has been essential in helping the public understand that artificial intelligence is not simply a neutral technical field. It is shaped by power, data extraction, labor conditions, environmental costs, institutional incentives, racial and social inequities, and the communities most affected by its deployment.
CONVERGENCE is not being designed as a traditional conference or vendor expo. It is being created as a living media commons and working assembly: part public-interest technology forum, part solutions showcase, part live newsroom, part collaboration network, and part global action lab.
Our operating framework is:
Signals → Stories → Solutions → Events → Collaboration → Action
We would be honored to invite you to participate as a Keynote Catalyst and strategic voice for one of the central themes of the event:
AI Accountability, Justice and Community-Centered Technology
Some of the questions we hope to explore include:
- Who is harmed by current AI systems, and who benefits from them?
- How do data extraction, surveillance, labor exploitation, and environmental costs shape the AI economy?
- Why must impacted communities be centered in AI governance and accountability?
- What does meaningful AI accountability look like beyond voluntary ethics statements?
- Which AI systems should not be built, deployed, or normalized?
- What alternatives exist to extractive, centralized, corporate-controlled AI?
- How can communities, journalists, educators, public agencies, and civil society evaluate AI before adopting it?
Your perspective would help frame one of the defining questions of this era:
How do we ensure that intelligence technologies do not deepen existing harms, but instead support dignity, justice, public knowledge, and collective capability?
We are inviting a founding circle of leaders across digital sovereignty, open-source infrastructure, digital democracy, public-interest AI, public digital goods, cybersecurity, regenerative economics, independent media, and community resilience.
The goal is not only to host conversations, but to produce practical outcomes, including:
- A Community AI Accountability Checklist
- A Public-Interest AI Risk and Impact Guide
- A Technology Harm and Governance Questions Toolkit
- A Solutions Map of accountable, rights-respecting, community-centered digital tools
- Live and recorded interviews for global distribution
- Practical pathways for schools, nonprofits, media organizations, public agencies, civic groups, and communities to make informed decisions about AI adoption
Mobilized News was founded on the belief that a well-informed public is the most powerful and valuable natural resource of all. With CONVERGENCE, we are creating a platform where knowledge does not remain isolated, but becomes shared capability.
We would be grateful to explore your participation in one or more of the following ways:
- Opening keynote or featured conversation
- AI accountability and justice systems lab
- Interview for Mobilized News
- Strategic advisory conversation
- Contributor to the Community AI Accountability Checklist
- Partner introduction to aligned AI accountability, civil society, labor, media, and research initiatives
We believe your voice would be essential in helping participants understand that AI accountability is not a technical sidebar. It is central to civil rights, public trust, labor justice, environmental responsibility, democratic governance, and the future of shared knowledge.
Thank you for considering this invitation. We would be honored to speak with you or your team and explore how MOBILIZED: CONVERGENCE can amplify and support the work you are already helping lead.
With appreciation and respect,
Steven Jay
Co-Founder and Executive Producer
Mobilized News
MobilizedNews.com
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