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Board of Advisors

ARI is run by an experienced team dedicated to AI policy advocacy in the public interest.

Scott Aaronson

Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin

Stewart A. Baker

Former General Counsel of the National Security Agency and Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security

Erik Brynjolfsson

Director, Stanford Digital Economy Lab; Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI; Ralph Landau Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Gillian Hadfield

Professor of Government and Policy and Professor of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research AI Chair; former Senior Policy Advisor, Open AI

Samuel Hammond

Senior Economist at the Foundation for American Innovation

Stuart Russell

Professor of Computer Science, Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI, and Director of the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public, University of California, Berkeley

Tim Ryan

Former U.S. Congressman and Chairman of House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch

Our Advisors help to inform our work, but they have no official authority in our decision-making process, and their presence does not imply ARI’s agreement with all of their opinions or supported policies. The ARI leadership team takes responsibility for ARI’s policy positions.