Society & Public Service

Shaping AI policy

Government advisory, institutional leadership, and public engagement on AI safety, regulation, and governance.

Roles

Government & institutions

NIST AI Safety Institute
Lead AI Safety Researcher & Co-PI
Tech lead for the 25,000-member MLA consortium advising NIST on AI safety and regulation under Biden Executive Order. Evaluating generative AI for human-AI alignment, linguistic edge cases, and culturally specific frameworks.
BWG Strategy LLC
AI Expert & Industry Analyst
Featured speaker for institutional investors on OpenAI/Microsoft, open-source regulation, Google Gemini, IBM Watson. Automated strategic investment report generation using LLM ensembles.
The Helix Center, NYC
Executive Committee Member
Leading organization of roundtables on AI+Medicine (April 2026). Previously organized roundtables on higher education and generational challenges.
NIST Public Working Group
Pre-Deployment Testing Standards
Contributing to pre-deployment testing standards for high-risk generative AI systems.
Meta Open Innovation
Future of Work & Global Policy
Member of Future of Work Working Group and Global Policy Working Group.
AI Alliance
Essential AI Competencies Guide
Contributor to guide defining foundational AI knowledge for organizations and individuals.
Policy Publications

Governance & regulation

Governance, Security & AI Policy
"Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI"
Proceedings of ICML 2024 · Oral presentation (top 2%)
"If Open Source is to Win it Must Go Public"
Spotlight talk, CODEML, ICML 2025
"Informed AI Regulation: Comparing the Ethical Frameworks of Leading LLM Chatbots"
arXiv, 2024 (with K. Elkins)
"Comparative Global AI Regulation: EU, China, and the US"
arXiv, 2024 (with C. Schroeder de Witt & K. Elkins)
Conference Presentations

Public speaking

MLA 2024: "Increasing the Visibility of AI Digital Humanities Projects" and "ChatGPT, LLMs and Beyond"

AFDO/RAPS Healthcare Products Collaborative: "AI Large Language Models in Healthcare" (2023)

BWG Strategy: Featured presentations for institutional investors (2023–present)