Theodora Skeadas has spent her career at the messy, consequential intersection of technology, governance, and harm reduction, long before "responsible AI" became a job title. She studied philosophy and government, witnessed the Arab Spring firsthand, spent years at Twitter facilitating the Global Trust and Safety Council, and now heads AI red teaming at Humane Intelligence while also serving as a PhD researcher at King's College London, board co-chair of the Integrity Institute, and advisory board chair of All Tech is Human. As she put it: she sleeps occasionally!

We get into what red teaming is and why everyone, not just researchers and AI labs, should be doing it. We also talk about how trust and safety and AI governance are more connected than the headlines suggest, what social scoring actually means (yep, like that Black Mirror episode), the human cost of Meta pulling its content moderation contracts, what it takes to get into responsible tech right now, and how companies should be thinking about AI in hiring and performance reviews. 

We didn't even get into all of our questions, so we had to do a part 2... stay tuned!

00:00 - Felicia and Rachel get into it... Knicks win, New York City, and the need for human connection

09:30 - Theo's origin story: philosophy, the Arab Spring, and landing in responsible tech

14:51 - Twitter's Trust and Safety Council, AI governance, and why they're more connected than you'd think

19:01 - Red teaming: what it is, who does it, and why everyone should be involved

24:30 - Guardrails: from social media deny lists to the EU AI Act

30:33 - Meta, BPO contracts, and the global human cost of cutting content moderation

32:34 - Social scoring: from Black Mirror to reality

37:31 - Online fraud, vulnerable populations, and the case for critical thinking

42:07 - Getting into responsible AI: honest advice for a crowded, shrinking field

50:33 - AI in the workplace and the global picture: governance, bias, language gaps, and what's next

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