Using AI Not Just To Speak But Also To Listen with Tareq Alani of Chorus AI | Hello Merge Tag Ep. 18

Tareq Alani is a product leader who operates at the intersection of media, technology, and civic engagement. He is a Co-Founder at Chorus AI, where he leads product and growth.

Chorus AI was designed to transform the way nonprofits and campaigns engage with media and content creation.

Before Chorus AI, Tareq co-founded and served as the Chief Product Officer of PushBlack, the largest non-profit media company for Black Americans. While there, he spearheaded reader revenue efforts, generating more than $5M between 2017 and 2022.

He also developed PushBlack’s groundbreaking voter engagement program, which in 2020 reached 70% of Black Americans online and generated 230M peer-to-peer voting messages, making it the largest digital voter turnout program of its kind.

• Throughout the conversation, we covered:
  How he got into the field
  Why politics can’t just be transactional
  How Chorus AI is approaching AI as a tool to help progressive campaigns and organizations do more
  How they’re building their tech in a way that’s in line with their values
  What sets them apart from the more household names in AI
  The important of social listening and how AI can help organizations get more done with less
  Other AI tools he’s excited about
  What he thinks the future looks like for AI, and tech in general
  What the media looks like in an AI driven future
  And so much more!

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Links

• Email Tareq at tareq@chorusai.co
• Website: chorusai.co
• LinkedIn

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