#016 - Nuclear Security and Policy with Matthew Gentzel

Matthew Gentzel

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

Top resources

• Co-Authored Open AI paper: Forecasting potential misuses of language models for disinformation campaigns and how to reduce risk

• The Bomb, Fred Kaplan

• RAND Corporation

• Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

• Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Boot Camp

• ISODARCO - International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts

• Nuclear Scholars Initiative at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

• Think tanks

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  1. Federation of American Scientists

  2. Council on Strategic Risks

  3. Global Sheild

  4. Nuclear Threats Initiative.

  5. BASIC (UK)

  6. Chatham House (UK)

  7. Center for Strategic & International Studies

  8. James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

  9. Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

  10. Brookings Institution

  11. Project on Managing the Atom

  12. Berkeley Risk and Security Lab

  13. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

• Richard Hamming at Bell Labs — You and Your Research

• Horizon Institute for Public Service Fellowship

• AAAS Fellowship

Matthew Gentzel

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-gentzel/

• https://www.longview.org/about/matthew-gentzel/

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