Environmental Action and Responsible AI

Using technology for good (especially in the climate space) has been one of my top priorities for years, so I organized Reddit's first environmental roadmap, getting approval directly from the CEO for the first stage, launched our first ESG call to action to the community, and co-led the company's first Responsible ML framework.

Reddit's Sustainability + Responsible ML Plan

Problem

• Upon joining, Reddit didn't have a sustainability strategy and hadn't measured it's emissions (ever!)
• Reddit had no framework to evaluate models for potential bias

Solutions

• Built 1 year roadmap for executives to lay out clear action plans and potential cost to achieve different sustainability goals
• Collaborated with policy and engineers to create Reddit's first measurable bias metric 

Results

• Approval for Reddit's first carbon auditing
• Shipped first bias metric that is now widely available to all teams at Reddit 

Next steps

• Continue along climate roadmap to achieve sustainability goals
• Exec sign-off for use of the bias metric among all teams as a company wide guardrail or core metric

Community Funds x Sustainability

Problem

• Existing set of funds set aside for communities to apply for but no call out that these funds can be used to sustainability related causes

Solutions

• Create first CTA to moderators and community about potential matching opportunities up to $25k per subreddit

Results

• >$65k allocated for numerous sustainability related projects

Next steps

• Scale up project to include other high impact areas (eg. global health, AI safety)