Contributors

Seth Stodder

Seth Stodder teaches national security and counterterrorism law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council. He served as ass...

Charlie Prior

Charlie Prior is a Stanton nuclear security postdoctoral fellow at RAND, where his research is focused on developing solutions to safeguard novel nuclear power plants. His other research interests includ...

Dominic Brennan

Dominic Brennan is a postdoctoral fellow in Technology and International Security with the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation based in DC. His research investigates the role of nuclear energy i...

Steven E. Hendrix

Steven E. Hendrix is a former senior U.S. diplomat and development official who worked in Nigeria on strategy addressing Boko Haram and broader insecurity across the Middle Belt and southeastern regions....

John Balouziyeh

John Balouziyeh is a Partner at the international law firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, where he splits his time between New York and the Middle East. Acting for sovereign states, the U.N., ...

Elora Mukherjee

Elora Mukherjee is the Director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School.

Janel Thamkul

Janel Thamkul is a former frontier counsel team member at Anthropic.

Roxana Vatanparast

Roxana Vatanparast is an associate professor of law at Capital University Law School and an instructor at Harvard Summer School. She is the author of “Cable Empires: The Co-Production of Infrastructure, ...

Tom Davidson

Tom Davidson is the author of a series of reports on AI timelines, and whether AI could drive explosive growth. Tom was previously a Senior Research Fellow at Open Philanthropy, a research scientist at t...

Liz Maida

Liz Maida is the co-founder and CEO of Fathom, which builds AI data infrastructure for biomanufacturing. She writes on how strategic state objectives are encoded in technical infrastructure, with a focus...

Liya Khan

Liya Khan is the former Afghanistan Program Officer with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. Her tenure covered the department’s humanitarian portfolio inside Afg...

"Jackie"

"Jackie" is the call signal of an American Army veteran who volunteered in 2022 with the Ukrainian military and has been fighting the Russians ever since.

Bahrad A. Sokhansanj

Bahrad is a senior research scholar at the Institute for Law & AI. He focuses on U.S. law and policy for AI governance, with an emphasis on AI safety, biosecurity, and First Amendment and intellectual pr...

Melissa Graves

Melissa Graves is chair and associate professor of intelligence and security studies at The Citadel. Her work focuses on intelligence analysis, national security decision-making, and the institutional hi...

Adi Tantravahi

Adi Tantravahi is the founder of Cofactor. whose platform focuses on denial management.

Dhruv Diddi

Dhruv Diddi is the founder of Solo Tech, which builds infrastructure that allows developers to deploy AI models directly onto robots and physical devices.