person
Amy Zegart
Stanford Hoover senior fellow; national security and AI
Hoover Institution senior fellow and Stanford associate director of HAI. Author of Spies, Lies, and Algorithms. Central mainstream voice on AI and US intelligence.
Profile
expertise
Policy / meta
Specialises in AI policy, regulation, governance, philanthropy, or movement strategy. Reads the technical literature but does not produce it.
Stanford / Hoover. Intelligence-community and AI-and-national-security policy. Not a technical contributor.
recognition
Field-leading
Widely known inside the AI and AI-safety community. Appears repeatedly in top venues, podcasts, or governance forums. Not a household name to outsiders.
Recognised in US intelligence and AI policy circles.
vintage
Scaling era
Worldview formed during GPT-2/3, scaling laws, Anthropic's founding. Pre-ChatGPT but post-deep-learning. The 'scale is all you need' debate is live.
Stanford Hoover Institution. Spies, Lies, and Algorithms 2022. AI-and-intelligence work in scaling era.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues AI is transforming intelligence; national security institutions must adapt to AI as infrastructure.
Intelligence agencies are now picking through huge haystacks for one or two needles of insight, and that's precisely the kind of project at which AI excels.
Closest strategy neighbours
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.