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This InfluenceWatch profile documents Encode Justice, a youth-led AI governance advocacy group, relevant to understanding civil society actors shaping AI policy and regulation debates.
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This InfluenceWatch entry profiles Encode Justice, a youth-led 501(c)(4) activist coalition founded in 2020 that advocates for AI governance, algorithmic accountability, and restrictions on surveillance technologies. The organization, initially funded by the Omidyar Network, lobbies for policies such as facial recognition bans and an AI Bill of Rights. It operates as a fiscal project of Future Incubator, affiliated with left-leaning advocacy networks.
Key Points
- •Encode Justice is a youth-led AI governance advocacy group founded in 2020 by Sneha Revanur, active in 40+ states and 30+ countries.
- •The group focuses on algorithmic accountability, opposing AI use in criminal justice and surveillance, framing AI bias as racial and economic oppression.
- •It lobbied for an AI Bill of Rights, supported the Algorithmic Accountability Act, and backed a national ban on facial recognition technology.
- •Initially funded by the left-leaning Omidyar Network and fiscally sponsored by Future Incubator, linked to March On and Future Coalition.
- •The organization engages in bipartisan outreach, including supporting a Republican-sponsored AI transparency bill in Utah in 2026.
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Encode Justice
Website:
encodeai.org/
Tax-Exempt Status:
501(c)(4)
Type:
AI Technology Activist Group
Founded:
2020
President:
Sneha Revanur
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Encode Justice is a youth-led activist coalition pushing for governance and censorship of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and applications. It claims that AI “algorithms are being used as tools of oppression.” 1 It was initially funded by left-leaning Omidyar Network 2 and works through political activism, community organizing, education, and content creation. 3
Sneha Revanur founded the organization while in high school. Revanur has been described as “the Greta Thunberg of AI.” 5 It claims that AI “algorithms are being used as tools of oppression.” 1
Encode Justice was founded by Sneha Revanur in 2020 when she was a high school student at Evergreen Valley High School in San Jose, California. 6 Its initial focus was on the use of AI in the criminal justice system and surveillance, and was primarily funded by left-leaning Omidyar Network . 2
As of October 2023, Encode Justice is in over 40 states and over 30 countries with over 600 high school and college students as members. 7
It is a fiscal project of Future Incubator, 8 a joint program of left-wing advocacy group March On and its youth-led Future Coalition that provides fiscal sponsorship and consulting to youth activist groups. 9
Encode Justice claims that because AI algorithms are designed to imitate human thoughts and behavior, future AI decisions will be based on discrimination and racism against Black, Brown, and low-income communities. 10 Some of the headlines posted on the Encode Justice blog are: “How the Racism Baked Into Technology Hurts Teens,” “ICE rigged its algorithms to keep immigrants in jail,” and “Over 1,000 AI Experts Condemn Racist Algorithms That Claim to Predict Crime.” 11
Advocacy
The Encode Justice advocacy team spends weekends convening phone banks. In 2021 Encode Justice supported a proposed national ban on the use of facial-recognition technology. 12
In 2022, Encode Justice lobbied the OSTP for an AI Bill of Rights with provisions that included an audited AI environment, transparency in how AI is used to influence decisions, and limitations on the use of surveillance. It was planning to lobby in favor of the Algorit
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