Jennifer Chien, PhD
@chiennifer.bsky.social
{currently on the job market}
Embedded Ethics Postdoc @ Stanford University
Researcher in RAI/Ethics and AI/ML through the lens of user agency
Prev. DeepMind, benshi.ai, UCSD, Wellesley '19
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~jjchien/
Embedded Ethics Postdoc @ Stanford University
Researcher in RAI/Ethics and AI/ML through the lens of user agency
Prev. DeepMind, benshi.ai, UCSD, Wellesley '19
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~jjchien/
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📄 How do we think about trusting systems that exhibit stochasticity (*cough* LLMs)? In this work, we explicate the tension stochasticity poses with traditional black-box approaches to trust and propose causal modeling of latent values to directly determine trustworthiness
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16461
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16461
Reposted by Jennifer Chien, PhD
More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena power...
techcrunch.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:46 AM
More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
Who gets to define what the story is with AI? Abeba Birhane, Louise Amoore, and John Thornhill are talking about how narratives of inevitability and FOMO, setting up any opposition of this narrative as anti-tech. Excited to hear about counter-narratives!
February 11, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Who gets to define what the story is with AI? Abeba Birhane, Louise Amoore, and John Thornhill are talking about how narratives of inevitability and FOMO, setting up any opposition of this narrative as anti-tech. Excited to hear about counter-narratives!
Reposted by Jennifer Chien, PhD
This is big news. www.ft.com/content/96b5...
AI start-up Anthropic settles landmark copyright suit for $1.5bn
Case will compensate authors but could raise costs of training large language models
www.ft.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is big news. www.ft.com/content/96b5...
Do you feel like you can tell when something is AI or not? Here’s an example that has fooled the masses, a prime example for measuring cognitive effects of AI outputs on users and be thinking about ways to easily differentiate AI-produced products
Read more here:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Read more here:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
August 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Do you feel like you can tell when something is AI or not? Here’s an example that has fooled the masses, a prime example for measuring cognitive effects of AI outputs on users and be thinking about ways to easily differentiate AI-produced products
Read more here:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Read more here:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
I know that lots of very important causes are asking for funding right now but I wanted to personally endorse this one, please donate anything you can!
#Donate today: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
@queerinai.com @ostem.org
#Donate today: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
@queerinai.com @ostem.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I know that lots of very important causes are asking for funding right now but I wanted to personally endorse this one, please donate anything you can!
#Donate today: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
@queerinai.com @ostem.org
#Donate today: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
@queerinai.com @ostem.org
April 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It is always rewarding to chat with students about my research! So thankful for the opportunity ☺️
#GenAIUCSD25 #genai #research
#GenAIUCSD25 #genai #research
February 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It is always rewarding to chat with students about my research! So thankful for the opportunity ☺️
#GenAIUCSD25 #genai #research
#GenAIUCSD25 #genai #research
I will be talking about this work (and some other in progress work) at the #GenAISummit at UCSD CSE tomorrow!
genaisummit2025.ucsd.edu
genaisummit2025.ucsd.edu
February 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I will be talking about this work (and some other in progress work) at the #GenAISummit at UCSD CSE tomorrow!
genaisummit2025.ucsd.edu
genaisummit2025.ucsd.edu
📄 How do we think about trusting systems that exhibit stochasticity (*cough* LLMs)? In this work, we explicate the tension stochasticity poses with traditional black-box approaches to trust and propose causal modeling of latent values to directly determine trustworthiness
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16461
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16461
February 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
📄 How do we think about trusting systems that exhibit stochasticity (*cough* LLMs)? In this work, we explicate the tension stochasticity poses with traditional black-box approaches to trust and propose causal modeling of latent values to directly determine trustworthiness
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16461
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16461
In case you missed it, I am at the conference all week and on the job market, so happy to chat all things research (e.g. RAI, ethics, user agency, content moderation, human-centered AI) #NeurIPS2024 @neuripsconf.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 6:01 AM
In case you missed it, I am at the conference all week and on the job market, so happy to chat all things research (e.g. RAI, ethics, user agency, content moderation, human-centered AI) #NeurIPS2024 @neuripsconf.bsky.social
Planning your #NeurIPS2024 itinerary?
Stop by the #QueerinAI poster session from 6:30-8pm PST tomorrow (Tuesday) to hear about some of my ongoing work: "Diversifying Data Annotation: Measuring Differences in Community-Driven Content Moderation"
Stop by the #QueerinAI poster session from 6:30-8pm PST tomorrow (Tuesday) to hear about some of my ongoing work: "Diversifying Data Annotation: Measuring Differences in Community-Driven Content Moderation"
December 10, 2024 at 4:21 AM
Planning your #NeurIPS2024 itinerary?
Stop by the #QueerinAI poster session from 6:30-8pm PST tomorrow (Tuesday) to hear about some of my ongoing work: "Diversifying Data Annotation: Measuring Differences in Community-Driven Content Moderation"
Stop by the #QueerinAI poster session from 6:30-8pm PST tomorrow (Tuesday) to hear about some of my ongoing work: "Diversifying Data Annotation: Measuring Differences in Community-Driven Content Moderation"