Jen
@jweedon.bsky.social
Making systems safer.
- Teaching & researching at Columbia (SIPA - Tech & Democracy Initiative)
- School Board Member (MA)
- Trust, safety, and security consulting
- Parent & local community builder
- These are my personal views
- Teaching & researching at Columbia (SIPA - Tech & Democracy Initiative)
- School Board Member (MA)
- Trust, safety, and security consulting
- Parent & local community builder
- These are my personal views
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Only makes me love yacht rock more 🛥️🇺🇸
“This is an unauthorized use of my performance of ‘Danger Zone.’ Nobody asked me for my permission, which I would have denied, and I request that my recording on this video is removed immediately,” Loggins said in a statement shared with Variety.
variety.com/2025/music/n...
variety.com/2025/music/n...
Kenny Loggins Slams Donald Trump for Using ‘Danger Zone’ in AI Video Bombing No Kings Protesters With Poop: ‘I Request That My Recording Is Removed Immediately’
Kenny Loggins has spoken out against Trump using his song "Danger Zone" in a bizarre AI video of him bombing No Kings protesters with fecal matter.
variety.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Only makes me love yacht rock more 🛥️🇺🇸
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the hummingbirds in my neighborhood watching me refill their empty feeders
August 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
the hummingbirds in my neighborhood watching me refill their empty feeders
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OpenAI’s Red-Teaming Challenge represents meaningful progress, writes Jen Weedon. Yet, “the critical question isn’t just ‘What don’t we know yet about how this AI might fail?’ but also ‘What do we already know, and that we’re choosing not to address?’”
What OpenAI's Latest Red-Teaming Challenge Reveals About the Evolution of AI “Safety” Practices | TechPolicy.Press
Jen Weedon evaluates OpenAI's Red-Teaming Challenge within the broader debate over AI safety.
www.techpolicy.press
August 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
OpenAI’s Red-Teaming Challenge represents meaningful progress, writes Jen Weedon. Yet, “the critical question isn’t just ‘What don’t we know yet about how this AI might fail?’ but also ‘What do we already know, and that we’re choosing not to address?’”
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June 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Idiocracy was a documentary.
June 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Idiocracy was a documentary.
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AI has the power to advance equity — but only if it's designed with everyone in mind. CDT & @aapd-disability.bsky.social now offer a plain language version of our report on building a disability-inclusive #AI ecosystem.
Read it here: cdt.org/insights/bui...
Read it here: cdt.org/insights/bui...
June 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
AI has the power to advance equity — but only if it's designed with everyone in mind. CDT & @aapd-disability.bsky.social now offer a plain language version of our report on building a disability-inclusive #AI ecosystem.
Read it here: cdt.org/insights/bui...
Read it here: cdt.org/insights/bui...
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
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Unfortunately, Secretary Noem can terminate student visas under the principle of Habeas Corpus
The DHS press release announcing the Harvard thing is truly batshit
Harvard University Loses Student and Exchange Visitor Program Certification for Pro-Terrorist Conduct | Homeland Security
Today, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered DHS to terminate the Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification.
www.dhs.gov
May 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Unfortunately, Secretary Noem can terminate student visas under the principle of Habeas Corpus
Too real 🫠
"I think smart growth is when you build just enough housing so we don’t get sued, but not so much that my golden retriever gets anxious,” said one Norwell resident while backing into her garage via a private bridge." respectfullyno.substack.com/p/we-asked-1...
"I think smart growth is when you build just enough housing so we don’t get sued, but not so much that my golden retriever gets anxious,” said one Norwell resident while backing into her garage via a private bridge." respectfullyno.substack.com/p/we-asked-1...
We Asked 100 South Shore Residents to Define ‘Smart Growth’—Now There’s a Warrant for Our Arrest in Duxbury
SOUTH SHORE, MA — Our editorial team is currently in hiding after attempting to ask 100 South Shore residents to define the term “smart growth,” a phrase which, it turns out, has the same effect on th...
respectfullyno.substack.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Too real 🫠
"I think smart growth is when you build just enough housing so we don’t get sued, but not so much that my golden retriever gets anxious,” said one Norwell resident while backing into her garage via a private bridge." respectfullyno.substack.com/p/we-asked-1...
"I think smart growth is when you build just enough housing so we don’t get sued, but not so much that my golden retriever gets anxious,” said one Norwell resident while backing into her garage via a private bridge." respectfullyno.substack.com/p/we-asked-1...
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"When the person championing your anti-abuse legislation is promising to use it for abuse, you might have a problem."
Non consensual intimate imagery (aka revenge porn) is a rapidly growing and escalating problem, but this law will absolutely be abused
www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/c...
Non consensual intimate imagery (aka revenge porn) is a rapidly growing and escalating problem, but this law will absolutely be abused
www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/c...
Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
Here’s a puzzle: How do you write a law that’s so badly designed that (1) the people it’s meant to help oppose it, (2) the people who hate regulation support it, and (3) everyone …
www.techdirt.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
"When the person championing your anti-abuse legislation is promising to use it for abuse, you might have a problem."
Non consensual intimate imagery (aka revenge porn) is a rapidly growing and escalating problem, but this law will absolutely be abused
www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/c...
Non consensual intimate imagery (aka revenge porn) is a rapidly growing and escalating problem, but this law will absolutely be abused
www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/c...
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In NYC May 1? Please join
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VHC Presents Anne Applebaum on Autocracy Inc: Annual Lecture 2025
Pulitzer Prize-winner Anne Applebaum delivers the Vaclav Havel Center’s inaugural lecture on autocracy and democracy.
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April 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In NYC May 1? Please join
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Anthropic continues to put out solid studies of how Claude is used, this time in universities
It shows both AI perils & promise. Students are getting direct answers from Claude, making up a lot use, but there are many cases of AI supporting their learning; too. www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
It shows both AI perils & promise. Students are getting direct answers from Claude, making up a lot use, but there are many cases of AI supporting their learning; too. www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
April 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Anthropic continues to put out solid studies of how Claude is used, this time in universities
It shows both AI perils & promise. Students are getting direct answers from Claude, making up a lot use, but there are many cases of AI supporting their learning; too. www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
It shows both AI perils & promise. Students are getting direct answers from Claude, making up a lot use, but there are many cases of AI supporting their learning; too. www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
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Why do scientists still struggle to answer basic questions about the safety of digital tech from AI to social media, even as families point to rising evidence of individual harm with concern & grief?
@orbenamy.bsky.social & I have a new article in @science.org:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@orbenamy.bsky.social & I have a new article in @science.org:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Fixing the science of digital technology harms
Technology development outpaces scientific assessment of impacts
www.science.org
April 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Why do scientists still struggle to answer basic questions about the safety of digital tech from AI to social media, even as families point to rising evidence of individual harm with concern & grief?
@orbenamy.bsky.social & I have a new article in @science.org:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@orbenamy.bsky.social & I have a new article in @science.org:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Thinking about governance in public service since I was just elected to our school board 💫 but my strategy /KPIs/ leadership muscles are from private sector.
Thinking about why public services should
not be designed in the same way as private-sector ones. I've 5 points so far:
(1) CHOICE: with v few exceptions, we get to choose the private-sector digital services we use but most public services need to be universal at the point of access
(1/n)
not be designed in the same way as private-sector ones. I've 5 points so far:
(1) CHOICE: with v few exceptions, we get to choose the private-sector digital services we use but most public services need to be universal at the point of access
(1/n)
March 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Thinking about governance in public service since I was just elected to our school board 💫 but my strategy /KPIs/ leadership muscles are from private sector.
Oooh collaborative threat modeling driven by communities. Anyone doing this well? Good research to flag? Thoughts?
I loved this talk, and this slide. It reminds me of the daily conversations I used to have with trust and safety colleagues when I worked at platforms
One of (if not the) most important slides at #ATmosphereConf.
Vulnerable people WILL be attacked in social spaces.
Everyone benefits when we understand and systemically defend against those attacks.
(From @kissane.bsky.social)
Vulnerable people WILL be attacked in social spaces.
Everyone benefits when we understand and systemically defend against those attacks.
(From @kissane.bsky.social)
March 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Oooh collaborative threat modeling driven by communities. Anyone doing this well? Good research to flag? Thoughts?
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In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Working with @julietshen.bsky.social is the best! +1 would recommend. Also a good cause 🐓🐓🐓
Hi bsky I'm hiring a TPM for @roost.tools! This person will coordinate our growing ecosystem of partners and community members, and organize various ongoing technical and non-technical projects. Email [email protected] if you have ~5 years of community management, pgm management, or TPM experience
March 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Working with @julietshen.bsky.social is the best! +1 would recommend. Also a good cause 🐓🐓🐓
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Hey cis friends, as the trump administration is hell bent on attempting to erase trans people, many of us are fighting back.
Please do your part and amplify us every. Single. Day.
Thank you for your service.
Please do your part and amplify us every. Single. Day.
Thank you for your service.
February 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Hey cis friends, as the trump administration is hell bent on attempting to erase trans people, many of us are fighting back.
Please do your part and amplify us every. Single. Day.
Thank you for your service.
Please do your part and amplify us every. Single. Day.
Thank you for your service.
Proud to see Mariel, our student, get her piece on DeepSeek discourse out into the world 💫
“The discourse around AI as the new frontier of great power is a distraction. If we are to have a serious conversation about AI’s future, it should center on power and accountability—not another manufactured East vs. West narrative,” writes Mariel Povolny.
Discourse About the AI Race is Devolving into Clash of Civilizations Nonsense | TechPolicy.Press
If we are to have a serious conversation about AI’s future, it should center on power and accountability, writes Mariel Povolny.
buff.ly
February 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Proud to see Mariel, our student, get her piece on DeepSeek discourse out into the world 💫
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If RFK wants to meaningfully decrease rates of depression, he can support paid family and maternity leave, equal pay for women, universal healthcare, and fully funded public schools.
Stigmatizing medication that treats the mental impact of a country that devalues your existence won’t cut it.
Stigmatizing medication that treats the mental impact of a country that devalues your existence won’t cut it.
February 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If RFK wants to meaningfully decrease rates of depression, he can support paid family and maternity leave, equal pay for women, universal healthcare, and fully funded public schools.
Stigmatizing medication that treats the mental impact of a country that devalues your existence won’t cut it.
Stigmatizing medication that treats the mental impact of a country that devalues your existence won’t cut it.
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Extremely proud of my hometown newspaper
Globe's front page urgently communicates how dangerous this moment is
Others: meh, business as usual
Globe's front page urgently communicates how dangerous this moment is
Others: meh, business as usual
January 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Extremely proud of my hometown newspaper
Globe's front page urgently communicates how dangerous this moment is
Others: meh, business as usual
Globe's front page urgently communicates how dangerous this moment is
Others: meh, business as usual