Brendan McCord
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Technology and National Security Program
Research Areas
Brendan McCord is an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. He is the founder and Chair of the Cosmos Institute and a key thinker at the intersection of AI and philosophy. In the private sector, Brendan was the founding CEO of two AI startups that were acquired for $400 million. In the public sector, Brendan was the principal founder of the first applied AI organization for the US Department of Defense and author of its first AI strategy. Brendan is a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School and was a Visiting Fellow at St Catherine’s College at the University of Oxford. After MIT, he spent 610 days underwater on a submarine. He lives in Austin, TX with his wife and two children.
Recent Publications & News
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The West Is Testing Out a Lot of Shiny New Military Tech in Ukraine
In The News
By Brendan McCord
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The Intersection of Commercial and Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the U.S.
Podcast
By Paul Scharre, Brendan McCord & Gregory C. Allen
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