CNAS AI Leadership Forum

Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a global competition for leadership to develop, deploy, and govern this era-defining technology. Forecasts that AI could bestow transformative and potentially decisive military, scientific, and economic capabilities have dramatically raised the stakes for leadership in this fast-evolving technology. Across the globe, leaders in government, industry, and academia seek to harness AI’s potential while remaining clear-eyed about possible risks. In the United States, debates intensify over the appropriate emphasis on safety and security, promotion and protection, as well as the broader implications for the strategic competition with China. Although industry and policymakers alike have embraced American AI leadership as a high-level goal, the specific nature of that leadership remains vague and contested, along with the steps and strategies required to achieve it at both the domestic and international levels. The urgency of clarifying this debate continues to grow with AI’s rapid progress and diffusion.

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) AI Leadership Forum convenes diverse stakeholders from government, industry, and academia to better understand the risks and opportunities of AI and together develop solutions to secure U.S. leadership in this transformative technology.

Chair

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi

Representative, Illinois 8th District, U.S. House of Representatives

Members

Dr. Miles Brundage

Executive Director at the AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute
Vivek Chilukuri

Senior Fellow and Director, Technology and National Security Program
Dr. Rumman Chowdhury

Responsible AI Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Dr. Rebecca Crootof

Associate Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law
Ned Finkle

Vice President, External Affairs, Nvidia
Dr. Alice Hunt Friend

Head of AI & Emerging Tech Policy, Google
Ben Garfinkel

Director, Centre for the Governance of AI
Graham Gilmer

Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Christopher Heinz

Member, CNAS Board of Advisors, Director of the Board of Advisors, Heinz Endowment
Dr. Emilia Javorsky

Director, Futures Program, Future of Life Institute
Ron Keesing

Chief AI Officer at Leidos
Steven Mills

Managing Director & Partner, Chief AI Ethics Officer, Boston Consulting Group
Jessica Newman

Director, Artificial Intelligence Security Initiative, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Barry O’Sullivan

Director, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Cork
Dr. Lynne E. Parker

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Technology and National Security Program, Associate Vice Chancellor, University of Tennessee and Director of the AI Tennessee Initiative
Paul Scharre

Executive Vice President, CNAS
Michael Sellitto

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Technology & National Security Program, Head of Global Affairs at Anthropic
Dr. Sarah Sewall

Executive Vice President, Policy, IQT
Amy Shuart

Vice President, Technology and Innovation, Business Roundtable
Tommy Shaffer Shane

Senior Policy Manager at the Centre for Long-Term Resilience
Douglas Silverman

Member, CNAS Board of Directors, Managing Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Senator Investment Group
Danyelle Solomon

Senior Director, U.S. AI Policy
Christian Troncoso

Principal, Global AI Policy, Amazon Web Services
Robert O. Work

Senior Counselor for Defense and Distinguished Senior Fellow for Defense and National Security
Shaarik Zafar

Public Policy Manager, Meta