Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In a year of upheaval in the tech industry, Harvard Law, Computer Science, and Public Policy Professor and Berkman Klein Center Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain leads a conversation with Former President Obama's senior advisor Jason Goldman with technologists who were at the center of the turmoil and have since directed their new career paths to serving the public good. From tech platforms grappling with rampant misinformation, to the massive shifts in the social media landscape and the meteoric rise of generative AI, these industry veterans will give their firsthand account of the current state of affairs.
Technologists joining Jason Goldman and Professor Zittrain in conversation are:
Yoel Roth: UPenn Knight Visiting Scholar; Former Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter; former Berkman Klein Center Dangerous Speech Project Researcher.
Tracy Chou: CEO of Block Party, a startup focused on digital anti-abuse and anti-harassment tools; former Pinterest and Quora engineer; former technical consultant in the United States Digital Service in the Obama Administration.
Kasia Chmielinski: Berkman Klein Center Assembly Program alum and co-founder of the Data Nutrition Project, Practitioner Fellow at Stanford; formerly of Google, Zest AI, McKinsey, Mozilla; former member of the United States Digital Service in the Trump Administration.
In a year of upheaval in the tech industry, Harvard Law, Computer Science, and Public Policy Professor and Berkman Klein Center Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain leads a conversation with Former President Obama's senior advisor Jason Goldman with technologists who were at the center of the turmoil and have since directed their new career paths to serving the public good. From tech platforms grappling with rampant misinformation, to the massive shifts in the social media landscape and the meteoric rise of generative AI, these industry veterans will give their firsthand account of the current state of affairs.
Technologists joining Jason Goldman and Professor Zittrain in conversation are:
Yoel Roth: UPenn Knight Visiting Scholar; Former Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter; former Berkman Klein Center Dangerous Speech Project Researcher.
Tracy Chou: CEO of Block Party, a startup focused on digital anti-abuse and anti-harassment tools; former Pinterest and Quora engineer; former technical consultant in the United States Digital Service in the Obama Administration.
Kasia Chmielinski: Berkman Klein Center Assembly Program alum and co-founder of the Data Nutrition Project, Practitioner Fellow at Stanford; formerly of Google, Zest AI, McKinsey, Mozilla; former member of the United States Digital Service in the Trump Administration.
