Matthew Gentzel
Escalation risks from state perceptions of AI capability, AI-enabled targeting, AI-enabled decision manipulation, and the impact of AI integration into nuclear command and control.
Stream overview
Projects related to:
- Preventing or mitigating large-scale nuclear risks
- AI-related military or nuclear topics: strategic stability & targeting, non-nuclear strategic weapons, country escalation based on perception of impending AGI risks, arms control and de-escalatory AI apps, as well as AI and deception/fog of war.
- Incentive design for regulatory efforts
- Information competition, credibility, and how to search for blindspots for X-risk mitigation
Washington, D.C.
Mentors
Matthew Gentzel is a Nuclear Weapons Policy Program Officer at Longview Philanthropy where he works on grantmaking and priorities research related to mitigating AI-enabled strategic threats and the risk of large-scale nuclear war. His prior work spanned emerging technology threat and policy assessment, with a particular focus on how advancements in AI may shape the future of influence operations, nuclear strategy, and cyber attacks. He has worked as a policy researcher with OpenAI, as an analyst in the US Department of Defense’s Innovation Steering Group, and as a director of research and analysis at the US National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.
Matt's grantmaking portfolio covers the impact of a variety of emerging technologies on nuclear stability, including AI-enabled targeting and information manipulation. His work aims to reason about non-AI bottlenecks to extreme risk, how perceptions of future AI capability impact escalation control in the near-term, and what physical, cyber, and cognitive security measures can increase societal resilience against nuclear war and AGI-enabled attacks. His portfolio also aims to fund work creating more realistic and positive plans toward great power peace, grounded in regional and technical expertise, organizational psychology, and game-theoretic insight on how to defuse conflict between rationally irrational actors with different values and beliefs.
Mr. Gentzel holds an MA in strategic studies and international economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a BS in fire protection engineering from the University of Maryland College Park.
Fellows we are looking for
Looking for intellectually curious and honest scholars, with some background on topics related to national security, game theory, or AI-enabled military and influence capabilities.
Project selection
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