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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Do you have strong feelings on whether Community Notes can work/do work/don't work? If so, please do take part in helping the Oversight Board's work on how/whether they should be rolled out beyond the US
Meta is seeking the Oversight Board’s opinion as it expands the community notes program beyond the United States. The Board will give input on which countries to include and how to scale the rollout.
More details: www.oversightboard.com/news/board-t...
More details: www.oversightboard.com/news/board-t...
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Do you have strong feelings on whether Community Notes can work/do work/don't work? If so, please do take part in helping the Oversight Board's work on how/whether they should be rolled out beyond the US
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This is the tech companies playbook - First comes the increasing user base, and then we will see ads on ChatGPT. But ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are not like Meta and Google ->
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is the tech companies playbook - First comes the increasing user base, and then we will see ads on ChatGPT. But ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are not like Meta and Google ->
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
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Next week is #GivingTuesday and we need your help to raise $100,000 before the end of this year! Support our large-scale response to unchecked AI development. Join us with a gift!
www.classy.org/give/313412/...
www.classy.org/give/313412/...
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Next week is #GivingTuesday and we need your help to raise $100,000 before the end of this year! Support our large-scale response to unchecked AI development. Join us with a gift!
www.classy.org/give/313412/...
www.classy.org/give/313412/...
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🚨 NEXT WEEK 🚨
Join us at 6pm, Weds 26 November for the 11th @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
We'll hear from:
- @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social on local govt AI procurement & a new version of Consequence Scanning
- @katybeale.bsky.social, Chief Delivery & Engagement Officer, Westminster City Council
Join us at 6pm, Weds 26 November for the 11th @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
We'll hear from:
- @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social on local govt AI procurement & a new version of Consequence Scanning
- @katybeale.bsky.social, Chief Delivery & Engagement Officer, Westminster City Council
TransformGov Talks : November 2025 · Luma
Join us at 5.30pm for a 6pm start.
Rachel Coldicutt, Careful Industries, on local government AI procurement and a new version of Consequence Scanning
Second…
luma.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
🚨 NEXT WEEK 🚨
Join us at 6pm, Weds 26 November for the 11th @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
We'll hear from:
- @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social on local govt AI procurement & a new version of Consequence Scanning
- @katybeale.bsky.social, Chief Delivery & Engagement Officer, Westminster City Council
Join us at 6pm, Weds 26 November for the 11th @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
We'll hear from:
- @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social on local govt AI procurement & a new version of Consequence Scanning
- @katybeale.bsky.social, Chief Delivery & Engagement Officer, Westminster City Council
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Spoke to a number of devs about how, in the face of CEOs claiming gen-AI is the future, their declaration of being genAI free is making waves.
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
“We can produce results that meet our quality standards without its assistance.”
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Spoke to a number of devs about how, in the face of CEOs claiming gen-AI is the future, their declaration of being genAI free is making waves.
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Join us for our AI in Policing report launch next Tues (2 Dec), with:
🎙 @jenitennison.com
🎙 Dylan Alldridge
🎙 Dr @kenzjorg206
Tickets: bit.ly/44owxGT
📍 Macfarlanes
🕠 5:30pm registration
🎙 @jenitennison.com
🎙 Dylan Alldridge
🎙 Dr @kenzjorg206
Tickets: bit.ly/44owxGT
📍 Macfarlanes
🕠 5:30pm registration
Report Launch - AI in Policing: international lessons and domestic solutions | JUSTICE | UK Legal Reform Charity
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Join us for our AI in Policing report launch next Tues (2 Dec), with:
🎙 @jenitennison.com
🎙 Dylan Alldridge
🎙 Dr @kenzjorg206
Tickets: bit.ly/44owxGT
📍 Macfarlanes
🕠 5:30pm registration
🎙 @jenitennison.com
🎙 Dylan Alldridge
🎙 Dr @kenzjorg206
Tickets: bit.ly/44owxGT
📍 Macfarlanes
🕠 5:30pm registration
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Nothing about us, without us.
And with things like the puberty blocker trial, that doesn't simply mean involving trans adults - it means listening to young people and being led by their experience.
And with things like the puberty blocker trial, that doesn't simply mean involving trans adults - it means listening to young people and being led by their experience.
The trans community’s trust in the NHS’ new puberty blocker trial is low and I can’t help but wonder whether they could have prevented that by involving ANY trans people in its design or operation, and maybe not involving several people who have attended conferences of anti-LGBTQ hate groups
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Nothing about us, without us.
And with things like the puberty blocker trial, that doesn't simply mean involving trans adults - it means listening to young people and being led by their experience.
And with things like the puberty blocker trial, that doesn't simply mean involving trans adults - it means listening to young people and being led by their experience.
Oooh, @soizicpenicaud.bsky.social is on @themaybe.org! That's going on my listening queue for the weekend...
www.themaybe.org/podcast/tres...
www.themaybe.org/podcast/tres...
The Maybe
www.themaybe.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Oooh, @soizicpenicaud.bsky.social is on @themaybe.org! That's going on my listening queue for the weekend...
www.themaybe.org/podcast/tres...
www.themaybe.org/podcast/tres...
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We're hiring 📢 We're looking for someone to head up our Responsive Policy and Public Affairs team for a year's maternity cover.
Join us and play a pivotal part in The King's Fund's response to emerging and topical issues in health and care. Apply today! https://bit.ly/47ETat2
Join us and play a pivotal part in The King's Fund's response to emerging and topical issues in health and care. Apply today! https://bit.ly/47ETat2
Head of Responsive Policy And Public Affairs | The King's Fund
We're looking for someone to lead a dynamic and fast-paced team working on issues at the top of the political agenda, for a year's maternity cover.
kingsfund.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We're hiring 📢 We're looking for someone to head up our Responsive Policy and Public Affairs team for a year's maternity cover.
Join us and play a pivotal part in The King's Fund's response to emerging and topical issues in health and care. Apply today! https://bit.ly/47ETat2
Join us and play a pivotal part in The King's Fund's response to emerging and topical issues in health and care. Apply today! https://bit.ly/47ETat2
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1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999 Drafting Instructions - a Freedom of Information request to Government Equalities Office
Please send me copies of the Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999’s Drafting Instructions given to the Parliamentary Counsel. If you can’t locate all versions, send me any one of th...
www.whatdotheyknow.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
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AI World Clocks: https://clocks.brianmoore.com (h/t @nelson)
AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
clocks.brianmoore.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
AI World Clocks: https://clocks.brianmoore.com (h/t @nelson)
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Well this is a *JOB*...for someone brave 😆
Director General for Digital, Data and Technology for the Office for National Statistics
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
Director General for Digital, Data and Technology for the Office for National Statistics
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
Quick Check Needed
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Well this is a *JOB*...for someone brave 😆
Director General for Digital, Data and Technology for the Office for National Statistics
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
Director General for Digital, Data and Technology for the Office for National Statistics
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
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RESEARCH: What happens when teens steward their own digital spaces?
A study of Discord servers run by and for teens found that moderators not only gained valuable skills, but were better at maintaining engaging, healthy spaces for their peers.
The kids will be alright 🥹
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
A study of Discord servers run by and for teens found that moderators not only gained valuable skills, but were better at maintaining engaging, healthy spaces for their peers.
The kids will be alright 🥹
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
![Quote from P4 in italic serif font on white background: "I think that people are most effectively able to moderate if they actually care about the community ... [It's also very important] to be a role model to the community. When you're more invested, the community is going to respect you more and listen to you more than someone who has absolutely no idea how the game works. They're obviously not going to listen to what they have to say."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hheutzl4mxedshsz4yqek5tt/bafkreigmllhfe2hecejbn7aazly5hksvhpowv5zw4hiacz3jw265x7wbvu@jpeg)
![Quote from P2 in italic serif font on white background: "I think that through Discord, there can be meaningful conversations on relationships, teaching people, connections, that aren't found in schools ... [Our Discord community is] providing that space to be able to [talk to others] in a way that's like, a healthy space. If anything goes wrong, there's actually something [that's going to be] done about it instead of just like being like, 'It happens.' ...[The fact] that [disagreements] are communicated about, and the respect, those are key factors to our group."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hheutzl4mxedshsz4yqek5tt/bafkreieybdrvhbw3egx4ugh6mxbbr2fkvrrwqk2y6razhqbdmncveqbgvi@jpeg)
![Quote from P4 in italic serif font on white background: "Moderation has helped me understand a lot about how to deal with people, especially with regards to managing conflicts, resolving them, working with different types of people [from around the world] ... It has basically helped me a lot in terms of the sort of soft skills that you need to run a community smoothly."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hheutzl4mxedshsz4yqek5tt/bafkreifn3ulmdgz32ukb7apwkhwtjcjrhkpt3ukctcsmbjf7qojqtveu7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
RESEARCH: What happens when teens steward their own digital spaces?
A study of Discord servers run by and for teens found that moderators not only gained valuable skills, but were better at maintaining engaging, healthy spaces for their peers.
The kids will be alright 🥹
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
A study of Discord servers run by and for teens found that moderators not only gained valuable skills, but were better at maintaining engaging, healthy spaces for their peers.
The kids will be alright 🥹
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
"anyone interested in the impact of AI on work and culture should be looking at the ripples that that technology is making among [video game] developers and players"
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
How generative AI in Arc Raiders started a scrap over the gaming industry’s future
The use of AI in the surprise game-of-the-year contender has sparked a heated cultural and ethical debate, and raised existential questions for video game workers
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
"anyone interested in the impact of AI on work and culture should be looking at the ripples that that technology is making among [video game] developers and players"
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
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We've published the final installment of our analysis of public services performance
Our view is that govt has made limited progress on most services
The exceptions are children's social care, where reforms look really positive
And adult social care, where govt has likely harmed the sector
Our view is that govt has made limited progress on most services
The exceptions are children's social care, where reforms look really positive
And adult social care, where govt has likely harmed the sector
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
We've published the final installment of our analysis of public services performance
Our view is that govt has made limited progress on most services
The exceptions are children's social care, where reforms look really positive
And adult social care, where govt has likely harmed the sector
Our view is that govt has made limited progress on most services
The exceptions are children's social care, where reforms look really positive
And adult social care, where govt has likely harmed the sector
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At Wigan Council, AI tools transformed adult social care - automating admin so social workers can spend more time supporting vulnerable people.
The LGA is calling for investment in social care innovation.
A sustainable NHS needs sustainable councils.
https://orlo.uk/8Qqyl
The LGA is calling for investment in social care innovation.
A sustainable NHS needs sustainable councils.
https://orlo.uk/8Qqyl
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
At Wigan Council, AI tools transformed adult social care - automating admin so social workers can spend more time supporting vulnerable people.
The LGA is calling for investment in social care innovation.
A sustainable NHS needs sustainable councils.
https://orlo.uk/8Qqyl
The LGA is calling for investment in social care innovation.
A sustainable NHS needs sustainable councils.
https://orlo.uk/8Qqyl
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Some thoughts from me on 'thick' and 'thin' public involvement, and the need for both. connectedbydata.org/blog/2025/11...
The thick and thin of public involvement
“I want to offer another vision of human compatibility in AI: one that embraces a thick and demanding world of human capacity, social complexity, and local politics in place of the thin, pliable, univ...
connectedbydata.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Some thoughts from me on 'thick' and 'thin' public involvement, and the need for both. connectedbydata.org/blog/2025/11...
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No (paging @betteridgeslaw.bsky.social) but also my God he sounds like the absolute worst kind of solipsistic arsehole nightmare man
‘Fear really drives him’: is Alex Karp of Palantir the world’s scariest CEO?
‘Fear really drives him’: is Alex Karp of Palantir the world’s scariest CEO?
His company is potentially creating the ultimate state surveillance tool, and Karp has recently been on a striking political and philosophical journey. His biographer reveals what makes him tick
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
No (paging @betteridgeslaw.bsky.social) but also my God he sounds like the absolute worst kind of solipsistic arsehole nightmare man
Some thoughts from me on 'thick' and 'thin' public involvement, and the need for both. connectedbydata.org/blog/2025/11...
The thick and thin of public involvement
“I want to offer another vision of human compatibility in AI: one that embraces a thick and demanding world of human capacity, social complexity, and local politics in place of the thin, pliable, univ...
connectedbydata.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Some thoughts from me on 'thick' and 'thin' public involvement, and the need for both. connectedbydata.org/blog/2025/11...
This is a good read, particularly for examples where local or contextual knowledge is far more relevant than that reflected in the Western/English dominated internet (and hence in LLMs trained on it).
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This is a good read, particularly for examples where local or contextual knowledge is far more relevant than that reflected in the Western/English dominated internet (and hence in LLMs trained on it).
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Should I routinely publish photos of my dog?
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Should I routinely publish photos of my dog?
For some reason last week my brain decided to be interested in phrases that indicate things are reversed, and pondered:
upside down
inside out
back to front
(Why isn't there one like 'rightwards left'?)
Then just now I overheard my partner utter one I hadn't thought of:
arse about face
upside down
inside out
back to front
(Why isn't there one like 'rightwards left'?)
Then just now I overheard my partner utter one I hadn't thought of:
arse about face
November 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
For some reason last week my brain decided to be interested in phrases that indicate things are reversed, and pondered:
upside down
inside out
back to front
(Why isn't there one like 'rightwards left'?)
Then just now I overheard my partner utter one I hadn't thought of:
arse about face
upside down
inside out
back to front
(Why isn't there one like 'rightwards left'?)
Then just now I overheard my partner utter one I hadn't thought of:
arse about face
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📣 (pls repost, self plugs welcomed!):
Looking for papers on the precarity of *knowledge/white-collar workers* under AI.
Lots on gig work + AI, but less on how non-unionized, higher-income knowledge workers face rising risks from AI systems they help create.
Got recs?
#academicSky #HCI #AI
Looking for papers on the precarity of *knowledge/white-collar workers* under AI.
Lots on gig work + AI, but less on how non-unionized, higher-income knowledge workers face rising risks from AI systems they help create.
Got recs?
#academicSky #HCI #AI
November 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
📣 (pls repost, self plugs welcomed!):
Looking for papers on the precarity of *knowledge/white-collar workers* under AI.
Lots on gig work + AI, but less on how non-unionized, higher-income knowledge workers face rising risks from AI systems they help create.
Got recs?
#academicSky #HCI #AI
Looking for papers on the precarity of *knowledge/white-collar workers* under AI.
Lots on gig work + AI, but less on how non-unionized, higher-income knowledge workers face rising risks from AI systems they help create.
Got recs?
#academicSky #HCI #AI
Efficiency is seldom our only goal.
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Efficiency is seldom our only goal.