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Jon Chun
Born
Jon Andre Chun
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Technology entrepreneur
  • Artificial intelligence researcher
  • Educator
EmployerKenyon College (2016–present)

Jon Andre Chun is an American technology entrepreneur, artificial intelligence researcher, and educator. He co-founded and later served as chief executive officer of SafeWeb, an internet privacy company that received financing from In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit strategic investment firm affiliated with the Central Intelligence Agency, and whose assets were acquired by Symantec in 2003 for $26 million.[1][2][3]

Since 2016, Chun has taught at Kenyon College, where he and Katherine Elkins co-founded the college's human-centered AI curriculum and AI CoLab.[4] His research has addressed computational narrative, digital humanities, and artificial-intelligence governance. His work has appeared in the proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and in journals including Narrative, the Journal of Cultural Analytics, the International Journal of Digital Humanities, and the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing.[5][6][7][8][9] A 2020 paper by Chun and Elkins on GPT-3 and creative writing was later cited in scholarship on GPT-3 and AI behavior in Minds and Machines, Science Advances, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[10][11][12]

Education

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Chun received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and a Master of Science in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995.[13]

Career

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SafeWeb

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In 2000, Chun co-founded SafeWeb in Emeryville, California, with Stephen Hsu and James Hormuzdiar.[1][2] SafeWeb operated a web anonymization service and developed Triangle Boy, a peer-to-peer proxy system used by activists in censored regions.[14][15]

On February 12, 2001, The Wall Street Journal reported that In-Q-Tel had licensed SafeWeb's PrivacyMatrix technology under an agreement that also included a financial investment in the company.[1] Later that year, The New York Times reported that the International Broadcasting Bureau, parent agency of the Voice of America, was in advanced discussions with SafeWeb about using its proxy technology to help internet users in China reach blocked sites, including the Voice of America website.[2][16][17] Other contemporaneous coverage of SafeWeb and In-Q-Tel appeared in Computerworld, Le Monde, and The Washington Post.[18][19][20]

By February 2002, Chun was president and chief executive officer of SafeWeb.[21] The company's consumer anonymizer also drew security criticism; a 2002 Computerworld report and a USENIX Security Symposium paper described JavaScript- and cookie-based vulnerabilities that could compromise users' anonymity.[21][22] During the same period, the company shifted from its free consumer anonymizer toward enterprise security products, including an SSL VPN appliance and an OEM agreement with NetScreen Technologies.[23][24] On October 20, 2003, Symantec announced that it had completed the acquisition of SafeWeb for $26 million in cash.[3][25][26]

Symantec

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After the acquisition, Chun was director of development for the Clientless VPN Appliance division at Symantec in Redwood City, California, where he worked on a clientless VPN gateway line based on SafeWeb technology.[27]

Kenyon College

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Since 2016, Chun has taught at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He and Katherine Elkins co-founded the college's human-centered AI curriculum and AI CoLab.[4]

Research

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Computational narrative and digital humanities

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In 2020, Chun and Elkins published "Can GPT-3 Pass a Writer's Turing Test?" in the Journal of Cultural Analytics.[5] The paper was later cited by Luciano Floridi and Massimo Chiriatti in Minds and Machines,[10] by Spitale and co-authors in Science Advances,[11] and by Mei and co-authors in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[12]

A 2022 article by Chun and Elkins in Narrative, "What the Rise of AI Means for Narrative Studies," addressed the implications of artificial intelligence for narrative theory[6] and was later discussed in a 2024 essay by James Phelan in Poetics Today.[28]

In 2023, Chun and Elkins published "The Crisis of Artificial Intelligence: A New Digital Humanities Curriculum for Human-Centred AI" in the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing,[7] in which they argued that artificial intelligence presents an interrelated set of crises for higher education that require an interdisciplinary, human-centered curricular response. The paper was cited in a 2024 systematic literature review on AI integration in education by Jaramillo and Chiappe in the UNESCO-affiliated journal Prospects.[29] Chun and Elkins also published "eXplainable AI with GPT-4 for Story Analysis and Generation" in the International Journal of Digital Humanities.[8]

AI governance and policy

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In 2024, Chun was among the co-authors of "Position: Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI," which appeared in the proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning.[9] The paper was later cited in scholarship on generative-AI governance, including a 2025 article by Araz Taeihagh in Policy and Society.[30] With Christian Schroeder de Witt and Katherine Elkins, he also authored "Comparative Global AI Regulation: Policy Perspectives from the EU, China, and the US,"[31] a paper later cited in scholarship on AI regulation, including a 2025 article by Floridi and Anna Ascani in Minds and Machines,[32] a 2025 article by Perboli and co-authors in Economic and Political Studies,[33] and a 2025 article by Olugbade in Global Public Policy and Governance.[34]

Patents

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Chun is a named inventor, with Stephen Hsu and James Hormuzdiar, on two U.S. patents arising from his work at SafeWeb:

  • U.S. patent 7,730,528, "Intelligent secure data manipulation apparatus and method" (filed September 19, 2001; issued June 1, 2010), originally assigned to SafeWeb, Inc. and subsequently to Symantec Corporation following the 2003 acquisition.[35]
  • U.S. patent 8,065,520, "Method and apparatus for encrypted communications to a secure server" (continuation of a May 26, 2000 application; filed February 27, 2009 and issued November 22, 2011), assigned to Symantec Corporation.[36]

Selected publications

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  • Elkins, Katherine; Chun, Jon (2020). "Can GPT-3 Pass a Writer's Turing Test?" Journal of Cultural Analytics 5(2).
  • Chun, Jon; Elkins, Katherine (2022). "What the Rise of AI Means for Narrative Studies." Narrative 30(1): 104–113.
  • Chun, Jon; Elkins, Katherine (2023). "The Crisis of Artificial Intelligence: A New Digital Humanities Curriculum for Human-Centred AI." International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 17(2): 147–167.
  • Chun, Jon; Elkins, Katherine (2023). "eXplainable AI with GPT-4 for Story Analysis and Generation." International Journal of Digital Humanities 5(2): 507–532.
  • Eiras, Francisco; Petrov, Aleksandar; Vidgen, Bertie; et al. (2024). "Position: Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI." Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning 235: 12348–12370.
  • Chun, Jon; Schroeder de Witt, Christian; Elkins, Katherine (2024). "Comparative Global AI Regulation: Policy Perspectives from the EU, China, and the US." arXiv:2410.21279.

References

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  1. ^ a b c King, Neil (February 12, 2001). "Small Start-Up Helps the CIA To Mask Its Moves on the Web". The Wall Street Journal.
  2. ^ a b c Lee, Jennifer 8. (August 30, 2001). "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship". The New York Times.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ a b Symantec Corporation (November 2003). "Form 10-Q for quarter ended October 3, 2003". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  4. ^ a b "Human-Centered AI at Kenyon". Kenyon College. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  5. ^ a b Elkins, Katherine; Chun, Jon (2020). "Can GPT-3 Pass a Writer's Turing Test?". Journal of Cultural Analytics. 5 (2) 1252. doi:10.22148/001c.17212.
  6. ^ a b Chun, Jon; Elkins, Katherine (2022). "What the Rise of AI Means for Narrative Studies: A Response to 'Why Computers Will Never Read (or Write) Literature' by Angus Fletcher". Narrative. 30 (1): 104–113. doi:10.1353/nar.2022.0005.
  7. ^ a b Chun, Jon; Elkins, Katherine (2023). "The Crisis of Artificial Intelligence: A New Digital Humanities Curriculum for Human-Centred AI". International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. 17 (2): 147–167. doi:10.3366/ijhac.2023.0310.
  8. ^ a b Chun, Jon; Elkins, Katherine (2023). "eXplainable AI with GPT-4 for Story Analysis and Generation: A Novel Framework for Diachronic Sentiment Analysis". International Journal of Digital Humanities. 5 (2): 507–532. doi:10.1007/s42803-023-00069-8.
  9. ^ a b Eiras, Francisco; Petrov, Aleksandar; Vidgen, Bertie; et al. (2024). "Position: Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI". Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning. Vol. 235. pp. 12348–12370. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  10. ^ a b Floridi, Luciano; Chiriatti, Massimo (2020). "GPT-3: Its Nature, Scope, Limits, and Consequences". Minds and Machines. 30 (4): 681–694. doi:10.1007/s11023-020-09548-1.
  11. ^ a b Spitale, Giovanni; Biller-Andorno, Nikola; Germani, Federico (2023). "AI model GPT-3 (dis)informs us better than humans". Science Advances. 9 (26) eadh1850. arXiv:2301.11924. Bibcode:2023SciA....9H1850S. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adh1850. PMC 10306283. PMID 37379395.
  12. ^ a b Mei, Qiaozhu; Xie, Yutong; Yuan, Walter; Jackson, Matthew O. (2024). "A Turing test of whether AI chatbots are behaviorally similar to humans". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121 (9) e2313925121. Bibcode:2024PNAS..12113925M. doi:10.1073/pnas.2313925121. PMC 10907317. PMID 38386710.
  13. ^ "Jon Chun". Kenyon College faculty directory. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  14. ^ Rimensnyder, Sara (March 2002). "Triangle Boy Howdy". Reason. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  15. ^ Chase, Michael S.; Mulvenon, James C. (August 2002). You've Got Dissent! Chinese Dissident Use of the Internet and Beijing's Counter-Strategies (Report). RAND Corporation. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  16. ^ "Travelling the Internet Invisibly". Voice of America. May 30, 2001. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  17. ^ Lum, Thomas (2006). Internet Development and Information Control in the People's Republic of China (Report). Congressional Research Service. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  18. ^ Johnston, Margaret (February 15, 2001). "CIA-backed venture eyes anonymity software". Computerworld. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  19. ^ "www.safeweb.com". Le Monde (in French). September 7, 2001. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  20. ^ Lee, Martin A. (September 30, 2001). "Spy Tech". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  21. ^ a b Verton, Dan (February 18, 2002). "SafeWeb users vulnerable". Computerworld. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  22. ^ Martin, David; Schulman, Andrew (August 2002). "Deanonymizing Users of the SafeWeb Anonymizing Service" (PDF). Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Security Symposium. USENIX Association. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  23. ^ "SafeWeb shuts CIA-backed anonymous Web service". The Globe and Mail. Reuters. November 20, 2001. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  24. ^ "NetScreen turns to SafeWeb for SSL VPNs". The Register. December 10, 2002. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  25. ^ "Symantec To Acquire Safeweb". CRN. October 2003. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  26. ^ "Symantec purchases SSL VPN maker SafeWeb". Network World. October 21, 2003. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  27. ^ "Symantec Launches Clientless VPN Gateway Line". Network Computing. Retrieved May 30, 2026.
  28. ^ Phelan, James (2024). "ChatGPT and the Territory of Contemporary Narratology; or, A Rhetorical River Runs through It". Poetics Today. 45 (2): 197–205. doi:10.1215/03335372-11092778.
  29. ^ Jaramillo, John Jairo; Chiappe, Andrés (2024). "The AI-driven classroom: A review of 21st century curriculum trends". Prospects. 54 (3–4): 645–660. doi:10.1007/s11125-024-09704-w.
  30. ^ Taeihagh, Araz (2025). "Governance of Generative AI". Policy and Society. 44 (1): 1–22. doi:10.1093/polsoc/puaf001.
  31. ^ Chun, Jon; Schroeder de Witt, Christian; Elkins, Katherine (2024). "Comparative Global AI Regulation: Policy Perspectives from the EU, China, and the US". arXiv:2410.21279 [cs.CY].
  32. ^ Floridi, Luciano; Ascani, Anna (2025). "Augmented Democracy in Action: AI Systems for Legislative Innovation in the Italian Parliament". Minds and Machines. 35 (4) 42. doi:10.1007/s11023-025-09743-y.
  33. ^ Perboli, Guido; Simionato, Nadia; Pratali, Serena (2025). "Navigating the AI regulatory landscape: Balancing innovation, ethics, and global governance". Economic and Political Studies. 13 (4): 367–397. doi:10.1080/20954816.2025.2569584.
  34. ^ Olugbade, Damilola (2025). "In search of a global governance mechanism for Artificial Intelligence (AI): a collective action perspective". Global Public Policy and Governance. 5 (2): 139–161. doi:10.1007/s43508-025-00113-z.
  35. ^ US patent 7730528, Chun; Hsu & Hormuzdiar, "Intelligent secure data manipulation apparatus and method", issued June 1, 2010, assigned to SafeWeb, Inc. and Symantec Corporation 
  36. ^ US patent 8065520, Hsu; Hormuzdiar & Chun, "Method and apparatus for encrypted communications to a secure server", issued November 22, 2011, assigned to Symantec Corporation 
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