Danny Weitzner

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Danny Weitzner

Danny Weitzner

@djweitzner

Dormant Account see @djweitzner.bsky.social 3Com Founders Senior Research Scientist CSAIL, White House Deputy CTO (2011-12)

42.3616, -71.0906 Bergabung Şubat 2008
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Danny Weitzner
Danny Weitzner@djweitzner·
I'm no longer active on Twitter/X. Find me at Bluesky @djweitzner.bsky.social or LinkedIn. Better yet, in person. Sorry to see this once-engaging platform turned into a personal political megaphone of its owner. That's his right, but it's only 'social' in the narrowest sense.
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Danny Weitzner@djweitzner·
@random_walker Agreed. Alignment (aka good values, fairness, lawfulness, human flourishing, positive externalities... in more mundane contexts) requires technical tools to achieve by can only be defined through democratic governance. Conflating the means with the ends is the problem.
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Arvind Narayanan
Arvind Narayanan@random_walker·
If you see alignment as a technical problem with the solution residing in the model itself, alignment efforts can only succeed if no one in the world is allowed to run AI that doesn't include the alignment tech the self-appointed good guys have blessed. Talk about power seeking.
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Carmela Troncoso
Carmela Troncoso@carmelatroncoso·
And now it is official! Thanks to all that helped me get here, mostly the SPRING lab members without whom this would not be possible @sansib @boyazwolf @WouterLueks @gchers @christian_mct @dario_pasquini @KasraEdalat @hiddenmarkov @thsStadler @KavousNik & the twitterless ones
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EPFL Computer and Communication Sciences@ICepfl

Congratulations to @carmelatroncoso who has been promoted to Associate Professor! 👏🏽🥳 👉🏽 actu.epfl.ch/news/appointme…

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Danny Weitzner@djweitzner·
Great thread on threats to the security of all Internet comms from misguided police demands. As usual @JuliaAngwin nails it. Her NYT piece "If law enforcement has reason to suspect us, they should get a search warrant," not leave all users open to attack. nytimes.com/2023/06/13/opi…
Julia Angwin@JuliaAngwin

A luminary lineup of crypto & infosec experts including @rossjanderson @mattblaze @WhitfieldDiffie @matthew_d_green @schneierblog @djweitzner successfully argued that there was no way to keep safe a “master key” that could unlock all encryption. /3 cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/…

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Danny Weitzner@djweitzner·
Excited about this new work on privacy: goal is to bring real traceability and accountability to the use of personal financial data.
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Danny Weitzner@djweitzner·
@daphnehk Another interpretation: applied design ethics moving into product dev teams. From MSFT-> @CaseyNewton “evolving toward putting more of the energy within the individual product teams that are building the services and the software." Maybe too optimistic but could be right move.
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Daphne Keller
Daphne Keller@daphnehk·
There are so many ways to tell this story -- the one where major tech companies invest in ethics or human rights commitments, and then back off from doing so. 1/
Casey Newton@CaseyNewton

At the same time Microsoft accelerates its AI work, last week the company laid off a responsible AI team. @ZoeSchiffer and I on what the company's ethics and society team did — including warn the company about how OpenAI's tech could be misused. platformer.news/p/microsoft-ju…

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Danny Weitzner@djweitzner·
Important thread on 230 from its main coauthor @RonWyden and advocates @CenDemTech Emma Llonso and @EFF
Ari Cohn@AriCohn

Sen. @RonWyden: "Chris Cox and I wrote Section 230 with the following idea: the person who *created* the content is liable for it. Quaint idea, I know." Continues: "Its baffling that the conversation is 'Big Tech'. 230 protects everyone, and the startups need it especially."

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Danny Weitzner@djweitzner·
Above all he is a model of principled, humble visionary leadership. In his farewell speech he left us with a challenge to strengthen our gov't and"rebuild a Senate defined not by sounds bites but by a believe in the strength of women and men and history." Thank you @SenatorLeahy!
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Danny Weitzner@djweitzner·
And he celebrated the victory in ACLU v Reno, declaring "Giving full-force to the First Amendment on-line is a victory for the First Amendment, for American technology, and for democracy." Let's hope we can remember this
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Danny Weitzner@djweitzner·
An amazing career @SenatorLeahy: *48* years & *8 terms*. Setting the Internet policy tone on free speech, privacy, surveillance & insisting on integration of rule of law, trust in individual responsibility & innovation. @JerryBerman @DeirdreMulligan @JonahSeiger @CenDemTech
Center for Democracy & Technology@CenDemTech

As @SenatorLeahy closes the final days of his remarkable tenure as U.S. Senator, @CenDemTech is taking a moment to thank him – for being an enduring ally in some of the most important tech policy debates of our time, since the beginning of CDT’s nearly three decade existence.👏👏

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Danny Weitzner@djweitzner·
@npsmajor @ratemyskyperoom I've had the shelves for decades. My memory is that they actually came from the Container Store. They have been quite sturdy and versatile!
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Room Rater
Room Rater@ratemyskyperoom·
Good use of space. Books. Shelves appear to be knotty pine. 8/10 @djweitzner
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Danny Weitzner@djweitzner·
@Elibietti Yes, please! The @elonmusk takeover of Twitter reminds me of Robert Moses bulldozing through beautiful thriving neighborhoods, robbing entire communities of the social vitality and economic value they have built over years. Be our Jane Jacobs!
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Danny Weitzner
Danny Weitzner@djweitzner·
Big congrats and thanks to you, @robinberjon, and @mnot Koichi Moriyama, David Singer, Eric Siow, @LeonieWatson & Hongru (Judy) Zhu. As an alum of the @w3c team, I'm so grateful for all who have stepped up to serve and am excited to see this important next phase of the Web.
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Danny Weitzner@djweitzner·
This is fantastic news for @WHOSTP the @WhiteHouse and the whole country. Such a distinguished scientist and leader adding to an already fantastic team!
Alondra Nelson@AlondraNelson46

Today’s historic bipartisan confirmation of Dr. Arati Prabhakar as Director of @WHOSTP is a testament to her sterling track record of leadership and innovation stewardship. We’re thrilled to welcome her to OSTP and begin a bright new chapter! My statement: whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

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