Jared Cohen is the founder and president of Jigsaw, a technology incubator at Alphabet Inc. previously known as Google Ideas. He also serves as the senior advisor to Alphabet's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign member of the secretary of state's Policy Planning Staff and a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Relations. From 2006 to 2010 he served as a Clinton.
https:// www.cfr.org/experts/jared-cohen
Google and money laundering and child trafficking? What????
GOOGLE IDEAS BECOMES JIGSAW
By Eric Schmidt
Today we’re announcing the expansion of Google Ideas, Google’s think tank, as a technology incubator called Jigsaw. The team’s mission is to use technology to tackle the toughest geopolitical challenges, from countering violent extremism to thwarting online censorship to mitigating the threats associated with digital attacks.
Jared Cohen, who ran Google Ideas, will serve as President of Jigsaw. He will also continue to serve as an advisor to me.
Many of the team’s current products aim to protect access to information, including Project Shield, which harnesses Google’s computing infrastructure to protect independent voices from DDoS attacks; contributions to open-source efforts like uProxy, which lets people share access to the free and open internet; and Password Alert, which helps protect against phishing.
Some of the team’s other initiatives aim to counter money laundering, organized crime, police brutality, human trafficking, and terrorism.
https:// medium.com/jigsaw/google-ideas-becomes-jigsaw-bcb5bd08c423
Does it mean anything that Cohen was in DC in October 2017?
July 20, 2017 08:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jared Cohen, CEO and founder of Jigsaw (formerly known as Google Ideas) will kick-off as keynote at CSX 2017 North America, ISACA’s Cybersecurity Nexus (CSX) conference being held in Washington DC, 2-4 October.
http:// www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/09/19/google-wants-to-control-and-sanitize-the-internet-in-the-name-of-fighting-harassment/
Jigsaw, a small subsidiary of Google, is working on multiple technological projects that would work to censor speech on the Internet and increase monitoring of its users, according to an article published on Wired.
Under a veil of protecting people from abuse by authoritarian regimes and “online trolls,” Jigsaw founder and president Jared Cohen is releasing a set of tools known as ‘Conversation AI.’
“I want to use the best technology we have at our disposal to begin to take on trolling and other nefarious tactics that give hostile voices disproportionate weight… [we will] do everything we can to level the playing field,” said Cohen. Jigsaw argues that online trolls bully people into self-censoring their views, and that online speech must be moderated to ensure that nobody is silenced.
Conversation AI will use machine-learning techniques to pick up on “harassment” and “abuse” faster than any human moderator possibly can. According to Google, the filter has a 92% success rate at detecting so-called “abusive” messages in concurrence with a panel of humans, producing a false-positive only 10% of the time.
The major issue with such a tool is the possibly unintended consequences that automatic detection will create.
Writing in Wired, Andy Greenberg highlighted that “throwing out well-intentioned speech that resembles harassment could be a blow to exactly the open civil society Jigsaw has vowed to protect.” When discussing the potential for “collateral damage” with its inventors, co-creator Lucas Dixon argued that the team wanted to “let communities have the discussions they want to have… there are already plenty of nasty places on the Internet.”
“What we can do is create places where people can have better conversations,” Dixon claimed, which Greenberg noted was “[favoring] a sanitized Internet over a freewheeling one.”
There also does not seem to be much appetite for such a completely sanitized Internet. Emma Llansó, director of the Free Expression Project at the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology, noted that “an automated detection system can open the door to the delete-it-all option, rather than spending the time and resources to identify false positives.”
Even feminists who face online trolls were nervous about the idea. Sady Doyle told Wired, “People need to be able to talk in whatever register they talk… imagine what the Internet would be like if you couldn’t say ‘Donald Trump is a moron,'” a phrase that registered a 99/100 on the AI’s personal attack scale.
“Jigsaw recruits will hear stories about people being tortured for their passwords or of state-sponsored cyberbullying,” said Cohen at a recent meeting of Jigsaw. He gave examples of “an Albanian LGBT activist who tries to hide his identity on Facebook, despite its real-names-only policy, and an administrator for a Libyan youth group wary of government infiltrators,” as people that Jigsaw were trying to protect.
Yet such a system could easily be developed by tyrannical regimes overseas to detect populist uprisings within its online borders, especially after the UN takes control over the ICANN on October 1st.
Founded in 2010 and previously known as Google Ideas, this is not the first time that Jigsaw has come under fire when attempting to tackle online “harassment.” In September of last year, they invited people who, according to Wired, had been “harassed by the anti-feminist GamerGate movement,” when instead they were some of the worst online harassers themselves, such as Randi Harper and Zoe Quinn. After this information was made public, Google employees began distancing themselves from the supposed “victims.”
As a respite from his day job, Cohen likes to focus on his passion for history. He is working on a book about America's "accidental presidents," the nine men who took office after the unplanned exit of their predecessor
http:// www.crainsnewyork.com/40under40/2017/Cohen
https:// finance.yahoo.com/news/google-jigsaw-ceo-future-wars-will-begin-cyber-wars-160550185.html