Jennifer Strong

Creator of SHIFT Podcast @PRX, @WSJ’s The Future of Everything, In Machines We Trust and Curious Coincidence @techreview, Extortion Economy with @ProPublica.

[Jennifer Strong @StrongReporter]

Proud to celebrate @WSJ's The Future of Everything #podcast win at the #Webbys!! @leHotz @danielas_bot @emmacillekens @AnthonyGrreen @WSJTanya @SCastellWSJ

[jamie palmer @j_palmer00]

vomit comets, pre-space testing and the @Icarus_Robotics path to launch!

always great to chat with @StrongReporter

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[Jeff Wilser @jeffwilser]

Link to apply:

https://t.co/L5hiaea7Sy

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Intended for leaders (CEOs, founders, C-suite, etc) who are looking to embrace a curious mindset and get more out of AI.

[Jeff Wilser @jeffwilser]

Aaaand.... Excited to come out of stealth!

After years covering the AI space, two things are crystal clear:

Leaders are excited about AI.
Leaders are confused by AI.

They love the *idea* of it, but they're not sure how to implement it in their organization.

🧵

[Jeff Wilser @jeffwilser]

If this at all resonates, I’m delighted to share an event I’m coproducing and cohosting with the brilliant @StrongReporter:

The AI and Leadership Salon, in New York City, on October 9th at The Explorers Club.

[Jennifer Strong @StrongReporter]

Such a pleasure to join my former #MIT community on stage for #NYTechWeek! Thank you for the brilliant conversations and sharp insights.

Special thanks to Jag Gill, Andrew McLaughlin, Jenny Fielding, Denzil Eden, John Pasmore, Sheena Jindal. 🫶 https://t.co/XOKCXGkUVg

[Recursion @RecursionPharma]

Recently, @StrongReporter, host of the SHIFT podcast, visited Recursion’s Salt Lake City headquarters to get a “peek behind the curtain” at our automated labs in action.

She talked with cofounder and CEO @RecursionChris about the recent explosion of TechBio companies, biology’s incredible complexity, the benefits of robots, and what’s required to run an industrialized end-to-end drug discovery company at scale.

🔹 Some highlights:

▪️ On pharma’s TechBio transition
“This is a multi-trillion dollar industry. About a decade ago there was a set of 6-10 upstarts that wanted to use things like ML or AI to try and discover medicines better. Today there are probably 400-500 of these companies, most of them still very early stage. Recursion is one of the very few of that original wave of companies.”

▪️ On biology’s complexity
“Inside of each of us we have trillions of cells, and inside every one of those cells, we've got about 20,000 genes that are expressing about 400,000 different proteins, and there are trillions of interactions of all of those 400,000 proteins. So it is wildly complex, and that's the problem…Today, 90% of drugs that go into clinical trials fail, and it's not because there aren't really smart scientists working on the problem, it's because they're working against this incredible complexity.”

▪️ On enlisting robots
“We envisioned a company where we could use robots to generate massive quantities of data, and we could use machine learning and AI to take all of that data and distill it down to find the patterns that actually tell us how biology works so that we could go from failing 90% of the time in clinical trials to maybe failing 80% of the time. I tell the team ‘If we could go to 80% failure rate, we would be twice as efficient as the industry, and you could theoretically cut the price of medicines in half.’”

▪️ On the lab in action
“This facility full of robots and a handful of people is doing the equivalent of my entire PhD's worth of data generation about every 15 minutes… You see all of these different workstations, all of these different lights, little arms moving plates around, and this system is running about 20 hours a day, 7 days a week, 50 weeks a year. It's really more like an advanced manufacturing facility than it is like a traditional research lab.”

👉 Listen to the full conversation here: https://t.co/J69lPI8DsD

[Jennifer Strong @StrongReporter]

@Katie_Roof And those of us who do both?

[Jennifer Strong @StrongReporter]

@Diane_Songa @shift Thank you!

[Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter]

On Thursday, join AI Accountability Fellows @niamh_mcintyre, @seekingsrishti, & @StrongReporter will discuss how AI technologies and tools are affecting democratic processes and civil liberties in a conversation with @margarettalev & Hafiz Malik.

👉 https://t.co/jlAS3pcpNQ 💻

[Whistleblower Aid @wbaidlaw]

Our CEO Libby Liu sat down with the SHIFT podcast's @StrongReporter for a great conversation about the impact of big tech whistleblowers on the industry.

https://t.co/YtbmSqdgjV

[Michael Nelson @MikeNelson]

Right NOW! @StrongReporter, moderator.
@Jane_Munga, CarnegieEndow
Nicholas Bramble, @Google, plus a Nigerian working to expanding digital opportunities in Africa. #DigitalFuture

[Rachel Metz @rachelmetz]

🚨Scoop from me and @BrodyFord_: Adobe has touted Firefly as a safe and ethical alternative to competitors like Midjourney… but it also quietly trained Firefly on Midjourney images.

Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images https://t.co/LIYD9RuExS

[Meg Marco @meghann]

Personal news, as they say, but not the happy kind. Just want to thank the wonderful @WIRED crew. It was an honor. Hiring managers, please snap up my colleagues who are also impacted. Absolutely brilliant, kind, funny journalists who welcomed me warmly to the WIRED family. 🫡

[Julie Brill @JulieSBrill]

Last week, I joined @StrongReporter, @OriginalEnright, @_ChristinaMont, & @rmsherman at @PrivacyPros AI Governance Global 2023 event to discuss #AI, internal regulatory governance structures, & helping customers safely leverage AI solutions. #Privacy #AIGG23

[Christina Montgomery @_ChristinaMont]

Last week at @PrivacyPros' meeting in Boston, I joined the incredible Chief Privacy Officers from @Microsoft @Google and @Meta to discuss the importance of #AI governance. Listen to the discussion on @StrongReporter's podcast SHIFT https://t.co/Y7nnEs9Q2R

[Theodore CHRISTAKIS @TC_IntLaw]

.@EUstaran launched the closing session of #AIGG23 @PrivacyPros. Great keynotes & now panel on #AI Governance & Regulation wth top CPOs @OriginalEnright (@Google), @JulieSBrill (@Microsoft), @_ChristinaMont (@IBM) @rmsherman (@Meta) chaired by @StrongReporter

[IAPP @the_iapp]

Panelists include @OriginalEnright (@Google), @JulieSBrill (@Microsoft), @_ChristinaMont (@IBM) and @rmsherman (@Meta) #AIGG23

[IAPP @the_iapp]

We’re finishing out the Closing General Session with a keynote panel of technology thought leaders and senior executives from major tech companies to learn about their innovative approaches to AI governance - moderated by @StrongReporter (SHIFT Podcast) #AIGG23

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

Nearly a decade ago, @FrankPasquale coined the phrase "black-box society" to refer to the way tech platforms were growing ever more opaque as they increased their influence. Now we accept this secrecy when, in the age of AI, we need to resist it the most. https://t.co/fQxkj0rQ2r

[Julie Brill @JulieSBrill]

See you at @PrivacyPros's AI Governance Global 2023 event in Boston Nov 2-3! @StrongReporter, @OriginalEnright, @_ChristinaMont, @rmsherman, & I will discuss the role of governance systems in helping to build #Safe, #Privacy protecting & #Trustworthy #AI. https://t.co/pqCXdAa2VL