Jeni Tennison
@jenitennison.com
Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
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"Emotional conversations were also common in the conversations analyzed by The Post... In some chats, the AI tool could be seen adapting to match a user’s viewpoint, creating a kind of personalized echo chamber in which ChatGPT endorsed falsehoods and conspiracy theories."
How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online
What do people ask the popular chatbot? We analyzed thousands of chats to identify common topics discussed by users and patterns in ChatGPT’s responses.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
"Emotional conversations were also common in the conversations analyzed by The Post... In some chats, the AI tool could be seen adapting to match a user’s viewpoint, creating a kind of personalized echo chamber in which ChatGPT endorsed falsehoods and conspiracy theories."
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sure, basically all the empirical evidence we have about participatory governance says that process transparency is key to citizens trusting and accepting outcomes.
but every tech bro/marketing major imagines they are somehow built different
but every tech bro/marketing major imagines they are somehow built different
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
sure, basically all the empirical evidence we have about participatory governance says that process transparency is key to citizens trusting and accepting outcomes.
but every tech bro/marketing major imagines they are somehow built different
but every tech bro/marketing major imagines they are somehow built different
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
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AI and copyright – transcript of evidence to the Lords Communications and Digital Committee last week committees.parliament.uk/event/25465/...
Rightsholders are struggling to find infringements of their existing rights so can they have some more please
#genAI #IPlaw #techpolicy #fairuse #openweb
Rightsholders are struggling to find infringements of their existing rights so can they have some more please
#genAI #IPlaw #techpolicy #fairuse #openweb
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
AI and copyright – transcript of evidence to the Lords Communications and Digital Committee last week committees.parliament.uk/event/25465/...
Rightsholders are struggling to find infringements of their existing rights so can they have some more please
#genAI #IPlaw #techpolicy #fairuse #openweb
Rightsholders are struggling to find infringements of their existing rights so can they have some more please
#genAI #IPlaw #techpolicy #fairuse #openweb
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Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
🔥🧵
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
🔥🧵
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
🔥🧵
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
🔥🧵
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We @connectedbydata.org are planning a conference next year (early March, in Manchester) about people, power and participation in (public sector) data and AI.
If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?
If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We @connectedbydata.org are planning a conference next year (early March, in Manchester) about people, power and participation in (public sector) data and AI.
If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?
If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?
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⏰ Join our essay collection launch in Westminster to hear leading voices on a decade of community business & what’s next. Chair: @anooshc.bsky.social Panel: @jamestplunkett.bsky.social, @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social, @hetanshah.bsky.social, @patrickhurley.bsky.social & Emily Bolton.✍️👉 buff.ly/pcSxdmp
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
⏰ Join our essay collection launch in Westminster to hear leading voices on a decade of community business & what’s next. Chair: @anooshc.bsky.social Panel: @jamestplunkett.bsky.social, @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social, @hetanshah.bsky.social, @patrickhurley.bsky.social & Emily Bolton.✍️👉 buff.ly/pcSxdmp
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To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of launching the ONS website in 2026 (the highlight of my career) I'm going to have one last swing at a Gov big data initiative (but not 'Big Data!') and will return to the Civil Service as Head of Products & Services for the National Data Library in January!
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of launching the ONS website in 2026 (the highlight of my career) I'm going to have one last swing at a Gov big data initiative (but not 'Big Data!') and will return to the Civil Service as Head of Products & Services for the National Data Library in January!
We @connectedbydata.org are planning a conference next year (early March, in Manchester) about people, power and participation in (public sector) data and AI.
If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?
If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We @connectedbydata.org are planning a conference next year (early March, in Manchester) about people, power and participation in (public sector) data and AI.
If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?
If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?
Use of AI shaping up to be a culture war issue?
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘It shows such a laziness’: why I refuse to date someone who uses ChatGPT
It’s the ultimate ick: trying to form a deep, lasting connection with a person who outsources original thought
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Use of AI shaping up to be a culture war issue?
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Well this by @eric-reinhart.com is excellent.
I was struck by the way he describes patients coming for consultations having rehearsed and refined their stories using ChatGPT.
And how he describes the meaning in silences that don't make it into transcriptions.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
I was struck by the way he describes patients coming for consultations having rehearsed and refined their stories using ChatGPT.
And how he describes the meaning in silences that don't make it into transcriptions.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Well this by @eric-reinhart.com is excellent.
I was struck by the way he describes patients coming for consultations having rehearsed and refined their stories using ChatGPT.
And how he describes the meaning in silences that don't make it into transcriptions.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
I was struck by the way he describes patients coming for consultations having rehearsed and refined their stories using ChatGPT.
And how he describes the meaning in silences that don't make it into transcriptions.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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"Lib Dem peer Tim Clement–Jones has asked the government in a written parliamentary question to explain why it had “not published the business case and data protection impact assessments”. Malevolent idiocy affecting 23,500 families, 100,000 people #Robodebt
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"Lib Dem peer Tim Clement–Jones has asked the government in a written parliamentary question to explain why it had “not published the business case and data protection impact assessments”. Malevolent idiocy affecting 23,500 families, 100,000 people #Robodebt
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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EXCL: Home Office travel records used in controversial anti-fraud crackdown were so flawed that almost half of families initially flagged as emigrated still lived in UK - Luke Butterly &
@lisaocarroll.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
@lisaocarroll.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
EXCL: Home Office travel records used in controversial anti-fraud crackdown were so flawed that almost half of families initially flagged as emigrated still lived in UK - Luke Butterly &
@lisaocarroll.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
@lisaocarroll.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
What's this? @audreyt.org and @caroline-green1.bsky.social bringing together care ethics and AI alignment? Sounds right up my street.
6pack.care
6pack.care
6-Pack of Care — Institute for Ethics in AI
6pack.care
November 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
What's this? @audreyt.org and @caroline-green1.bsky.social bringing together care ethics and AI alignment? Sounds right up my street.
6pack.care
6pack.care
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“Though [CFO] Friar later walked back her suggestion, saying that she was advocating for structural support for AI in general, not just her company, it is likely true that some kind of huge subsidy or another is probably the only way that OpenAI’s preposterous business model […] can be sustained.”
“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
trib.al/CUazMCQ
trib.al/CUazMCQ
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“Though [CFO] Friar later walked back her suggestion, saying that she was advocating for structural support for AI in general, not just her company, it is likely true that some kind of huge subsidy or another is probably the only way that OpenAI’s preposterous business model […] can be sustained.”
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Are we approaching a Turing Test for Teaching? A deep dive into the evidence on AI tutoring. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-algori...
November 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Are we approaching a Turing Test for Teaching? A deep dive into the evidence on AI tutoring. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-algori...
Tiny bit of the story, but I'd love to know more about the software failure this piece mentions. If it's this Calculate Release Dates Service, it was winning prizes in June.
(Once again I long, hopelessly, for a culture of learning, not blame.)
www.version1.com/blog/calcula...
(Once again I long, hopelessly, for a culture of learning, not blame.)
www.version1.com/blog/calcula...
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Tiny bit of the story, but I'd love to know more about the software failure this piece mentions. If it's this Calculate Release Dates Service, it was winning prizes in June.
(Once again I long, hopelessly, for a culture of learning, not blame.)
www.version1.com/blog/calcula...
(Once again I long, hopelessly, for a culture of learning, not blame.)
www.version1.com/blog/calcula...
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I have five tickets for Starlight Express TODAY at 14:30 (theatre is near Wembley). If you can use all / any please shout - would love them not to go to waste. 🚂💫
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I have five tickets for Starlight Express TODAY at 14:30 (theatre is near Wembley). If you can use all / any please shout - would love them not to go to waste. 🚂💫
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Yet more #openaddresses for UK housing stock:
Wiltshire Council has released its Council Tax address list for re-use as #opendata under the Open Government Licence www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...
Thanks @wiltscouncil.bsky.social!
Geocoded in CSV and GeoJson formats
#FOI #localgov #proptech
Wiltshire Council has released its Council Tax address list for re-use as #opendata under the Open Government Licence www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...
Thanks @wiltscouncil.bsky.social!
Geocoded in CSV and GeoJson formats
#FOI #localgov #proptech
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Yet more #openaddresses for UK housing stock:
Wiltshire Council has released its Council Tax address list for re-use as #opendata under the Open Government Licence www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...
Thanks @wiltscouncil.bsky.social!
Geocoded in CSV and GeoJson formats
#FOI #localgov #proptech
Wiltshire Council has released its Council Tax address list for re-use as #opendata under the Open Government Licence www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...
Thanks @wiltscouncil.bsky.social!
Geocoded in CSV and GeoJson formats
#FOI #localgov #proptech
An interesting point at the Data and AI CSO Network this week was the distinction between "digital inclusion by getting everyone to adopt digital" and "digital inclusion by providing non-digital alternatives".
The first is impossible, the second shows the limits of the digitalness of digital ID.
The first is impossible, the second shows the limits of the digitalness of digital ID.
Josh Simons, the junior minister responsible for digital ID (and former Labour Together director) has promised govt will embark on “the largest ever digital inclusion programme ever delivered in this country" to deliver digital ID. www.publictechnology.net/2025/11/05/s...
Government ‘considering physical alternatives’ for those unable access digital ID
Ministers reveal that the digitally excluded may be able to use familiar locations on the high street to obtain a more traditional ID card that could be kept in wallets
Government is exploring ...
www.publictechnology.net
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
An interesting point at the Data and AI CSO Network this week was the distinction between "digital inclusion by getting everyone to adopt digital" and "digital inclusion by providing non-digital alternatives".
The first is impossible, the second shows the limits of the digitalness of digital ID.
The first is impossible, the second shows the limits of the digitalness of digital ID.
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what a brilliant essay. amongst many other things, i’m definitely having “thick” and “thin” construction🧎
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
what a brilliant essay. amongst many other things, i’m definitely having “thick” and “thin” construction🧎
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Please read this statement by Anne Health.
Trans children are being subjected by Sussex NHS to the physical torture of being forcibly detransitioned.
This is unnecessary cruelty and in my view constitutes torture, violence and child abuse on the part of NHS Sussex.
Trans children are being subjected by Sussex NHS to the physical torture of being forcibly detransitioned.
This is unnecessary cruelty and in my view constitutes torture, violence and child abuse on the part of NHS Sussex.
Anne Health response: NHS Sussex Investigation into WellBN GP Practice - Anne Healthcare
We are deeply concerned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s updated Code of Practice which has been sent to Secretary of State, Bridget Philipson, this week.While presented as clarification,...
anne.health
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Please read this statement by Anne Health.
Trans children are being subjected by Sussex NHS to the physical torture of being forcibly detransitioned.
This is unnecessary cruelty and in my view constitutes torture, violence and child abuse on the part of NHS Sussex.
Trans children are being subjected by Sussex NHS to the physical torture of being forcibly detransitioned.
This is unnecessary cruelty and in my view constitutes torture, violence and child abuse on the part of NHS Sussex.
This fantastic paper "proposes a vision of AI that embraces local vernaculars, the multiplicity of objectives, the responsibilities that come with producing persons, and the potential of instigating rather than circumventing political contestation."
read.dukeupress.edu/public-cultu...
read.dukeupress.edu/public-cultu...
From Thin to Thick | Public Culture | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This fantastic paper "proposes a vision of AI that embraces local vernaculars, the multiplicity of objectives, the responsibilities that come with producing persons, and the potential of instigating rather than circumventing political contestation."
read.dukeupress.edu/public-cultu...
read.dukeupress.edu/public-cultu...
Can anyone recommend a good career coach? (For my partner, thinking about a career change.)
November 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Can anyone recommend a good career coach? (For my partner, thinking about a career change.)
Ooh, I love the way this co-design approach is conceived as embedding engineers within frontline services.
(Even while advocating for co-design over user research, I usually think of bringing people into digital teams, which is obviously less powerful.)
Super interested to see how it works out!
(Even while advocating for co-design over user research, I usually think of bringing people into digital teams, which is obviously less powerful.)
Super interested to see how it works out!
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Ooh, I love the way this co-design approach is conceived as embedding engineers within frontline services.
(Even while advocating for co-design over user research, I usually think of bringing people into digital teams, which is obviously less powerful.)
Super interested to see how it works out!
(Even while advocating for co-design over user research, I usually think of bringing people into digital teams, which is obviously less powerful.)
Super interested to see how it works out!