Jason Goldman is an American technology executive and former government official. He worked alongside Evan Williams on Blogger, Twitter and Medium, and in March 2015 President Barack Obama named him the first White House Chief Digital Officer (Source: techcrunch.com). He sits on the board of the Center for Shared AI Prosperity, and on September 23, 2026 Governor Gavin Newsom named him one of four experts advising on the recommendations required by California's Executive Order N-9-26 (Source: gov.ca.gov).
Background
TechCrunch described Goldman in 2015 as "a longtime tech industry executive best known for his work alongside Ev Williams during the formative years of products such as Blogger, Twitter, and Medium" (Source: techcrunch.com). He was a vice president at Twitter, and helped launch Medium in 2012 with Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams (Source: fedscoop.com). The California governor's office describes him as "an early product leader at Google and Twitter" (Source: gov.ca.gov).
Roles
- White House Chief Digital Officer (from 2015). Obama announced the appointment on March 24, 2015; Goldman was to oversee the White House's digital outreach and lead its Office of Digital Strategy, expanding on duties previously led by Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer. Obama said Goldman "brings new energy and coveted expertise as someone who's helped shape the digital age" (Source: techcrunch.com). The Obama White House described him as its "first-ever Chief Digital Officer" (Source: obamawhitehouse.archives.gov).
- Center for Shared AI Prosperity (board). Goldman is listed on the board of the Center for Shared AI Prosperity (CSAIP), which describes itself as "a growing research coalition working to refine and compare progressive visions for a U.S. economy in which AI has replaced and disrupted a large number of jobs" and states that it "does not accept funding from companies, their foundations or foreign nationals" (Source: csaip.org). The center's August 2026 survey of 56,000 respondents on AI economic policy, conducted with Blue Rose Research, is described at Public Opinion on AI.
- California Executive Order N-9-26 (2026). Newsom named Goldman, Gillian Hadfield, Alondra Nelson and Rob Reich to advise on the order's recommendations, which include whether to require frontier AI companies to embed an independent verification organization onsite, to require independent verification of the safety frameworks, transparency reports and risk assessments filed under state law, to advance a "kill switch" for frontier models, and to extend the definition of critical safety incidents to loss-of-control incidents (Source: gov.ca.gov) (California Executive Order N-9-26 (independent verification and frontier AI safety)).
Positions and statements
On his appointment, Goldman said that the executive order "addresses the hardest questions in AI safety governance, including who verifies a frontier lab's safety claims and whether a model can be reliably shut down," and that "California continues to show how democratic oversight can apply to one of the world's most consequential industries" (Source: gov.ca.gov).
Relationships
- related: California Executive Order N-9-26 (independent verification and frontier AI safety)
- related: Gavin Newsom
- related: Rob Reich, Gillian K. Hadfield, Alondra Nelson — fellow advisers under EO N-9-26
- related: AI kill switch
- related: Public Opinion on AI