Who watches the warfighters? As defense in stituations race to integrate AI into national security operations\, the me chanisms designed to catch failures and protection those who report the are struggling to keep pace.
Jennifer Gibson\, Executive Director of Pss t.org\, and Abra Ganz\, AI Oversight lead at CARMA and incoming Director of AI Policy at Pour Demain\, discuss the emerging challenge of holding defen se institutions accountable for their use of AI. Drawing on their experienc e leading a research initiative on oversight of AI in the Department of Def ense\, and an organization supporting whistleblowers in the tech and AI spa ce\, they will explore the current state of testing\, evaluations and whist leblower protections in the national security sector and what stronger over sight frameworks could look like.
In-person event (Harvard ID holders only). Lunch will be served.
Part of the AI Governance Speak er Series co-sponsored by AISST and the HLS AI Law Association (AIA).
Jennifer Gibson is the Co-Found er and Executive Director of Psst.org\, a nonprofit that makes it safer for tech and AI insiders to blow the whistle on potential harms. Earlier in he r career\, Gibson spent a decade investigating\, litigating\, and advocatin g on issues related to the War on Terror\, including covert drone strikes\, special operations raids\, and kill lists. Working at Reprieve\, she engag ed regularly with national security whistleblowers and developed a close-up view of what happens when powerful institutions operate without meaningful oversight\, and what it costs the people willing to speak up about it. Bef ore Psst.org\, Gibson was Legal Director of the Whistleblower Protection Pr ogram at The Signals Network. She holds a JD from Stanford Law School.
< p>Abra Ganz leads the AI oversight team at the Centre for AI Risk Management and Alignment (CARMA) and is the incoming Director of AI Policy at Pour Demain. Her work spans AI oversight in civilian and nationa l security settings and she has advised policymakers in the US\, UK\, South Korea\, and the EU on related legislation. Ganz is also an affiliate at th e Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative\, and holds an undergraduate degre e in Classics from Oxford and a Master's in Logic from the University of Am sterdam CATEGORIES:Speaker/Panel LOCATION:WCC 2012 GEO:0.000000;0.000000 ORGANIZER;CN="Jessica Weaver":MAILTO:jweaver@law.harvard.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://hls.harvard.edu/events/who-watches-the-warfighters-ov ersight-of-ai-in-the-dod/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1Speaker_16x9.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR