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Ben Buchanan

Former White House AI Special Advisor (2021–2025)

Georgetown CSET researcher who served as White House Special Advisor for AI from 2021 to 2025. Key architect of the Biden administration's chip export controls and the 2023 AI Executive Order.

current Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS; Director of CyberAI Project, Georgetown CSET
past Special Advisor for AI, White House

Strategy positions

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Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimes

Architect of chip export controls and the 2023 AI executive order; argues national security and AI safety are inseparable.

Export controls are the most important tool the United States has on frontier AI.
articleBen Buchanan on AI and national security· ChinaTalk· 2024· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Ben Buchanan's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Abeba Birhane

    Abeba Birhane

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    Mozilla Foundation senior advisor; AI ethics researcher

  • Adam Tooze

    Adam Tooze

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    Columbia historian; Chartbook newsletter

  • Adrian Weller

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    Cambridge professor; Alan Turing Institute fellow

  • Adrienne LaFrance

    Adrienne LaFrance

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    The Atlantic executive editor; technology critic

  • Adrienne Williams

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    Former Amazon warehouse worker; AI labour activist

  • Akash Wasil

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    Encode Justice; AI policy advocate

Record last updated 2026-04-25.