I develop strategy and policy for our superintelligence future at RAND's Center for the Geopolitics of AGI. My work focuses on how the United States and the international community can navigate the transition to a world with transformative AI: preserving human agency, maintaining strategic stability, and building the institutions needed for human-AI coexistence.
Before RAND, I spent two decades as a U.S. diplomat, including four years as the Acting and Deputy Science & Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State. In that role, I built the State Department's AI portfolio, led the creation of the Department's first International Engagement Strategy for AI, and helped secure adoption of the first international AI principles at the OECD, G7, and G20. My final overseas assignment was leading U.S. critical and emerging technology policy across the Indo-Pacific from the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.
I publish about AI policy and strategy, computational propaganda, and the geopolitics of emerging technology. I've written two science fiction novels and am currently finishing a third about the next fifty years of life with superintelligence.
I believe getting superintelligence right is the most consequential challenge of our time. I'm focused on doing what I can to help.