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Sneha Revanur is an Indian-American activist, who is the founder and president of Encode Justice, a youth organization advocating for the global regulation of artificial intelligence. In 2023, she was described by Politico as the ‘Greta Thunberg of AI’. In 2023, Revanur was the youngest individual to be named to TIME’s inaugural list of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence.
Revanur was born and raised in San Jose, California, where she attended Evergreen Valley High School and was a delegate to the United States Senate Youth Program.[2] Growing up, both of Revanur’s parents worked in tech, as does her older sister.[3] She describes how her upbringing in Silicon Valley influenced her activism: “I was exposed early on to a culture of thinking that every problem in society can be fixed with some sort of computational solution—whether that’s a mobile app or a machine-learning model … there was always this view that innovation was some sort of silver bullet … I often say that, had I been born anywhere else, Encode Justice would not exist.”[4]
Revanur is now a student at Williams College in Massachusetts, where she studies political economy and hopes to attend law school after graduation.
Encode Justice now spans around 1,000 young people, primarily high school and college students. Since its founding, Encode Justice has contributed to AI policy initiatives including the Biden administration’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. The organization also runs a workshop program and has established a global chapter network.
