#016 - Nuclear Security and Policy with Matthew Gentzel
Description
Matthew is the Co-Lead of Longview Philanthropy’s Nuclear Weapons Policy program.
In this episode we discuss
- Matthew’s journey from the Airforce academy, to fire engineering, AI policy, and nuclear security
- Many topics related to nuclear security and international policy
- Artificial intelligence and it’s implications for influence operations
- The benefits of developing broad situation awareness and diverse teams in policy
- Longview Philanthropy’s key grantmaking areas
- How to get into policy as an engineer
- How Matthew has approached career planning and career change
Full show notes: http://engineeredforimpact.show/matthew
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Timestamps
(00:00:00 ) Intro
(00:01:20 ) Matthew
(00:02:08 ) Matthew's background
(00:22:23 ) US National Security Commission on AI
(00:35:08 ) Open AI
(00:46:36 ) Nulcear risk reduction
(01:02:12 ) Longview Philanthropy grantmaking
(01:45:11 ) Engineers in policy
(01:51:18 ) Communication skills
(01:58:01 ) Career planning and decision making
(02:10:25 ) Entering the policy field
(02:15:29 ) Transferable skills for policy
(02:27:02 ) Outro
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