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Elizabeth Kelly

Elizabeth Kelly

Founding director of the US AI Safety Institute

Deputy assistant to the president for economic policy who became the founding director of the US AI Safety Institute at NIST after the October 2023 AI Executive Order.

past Director, US AI Safety Institute (NIST); Special Assistant to the President, National Economic Council

Strategy positions

Governance firstendorses

Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimes

Framed the US AI Safety Institute's mission around 'advancing the science of AI safety' via evaluations, red-teaming, and international coordination.

“Safety enables trust, which enables adoption, which enables innovation.”
talkThe U.S. Vision for AI Safety: A Conversation with Elizabeth Kelly· CSIS· 2024· direct quote

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

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

  • Abeba Birhane

    Abeba Birhane

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Mozilla Foundation senior advisor; AI ethics researcher

  • Adam Tooze

    Adam Tooze

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Columbia historian; Chartbook newsletter

  • Adrian Weller

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Cambridge professor; Alan Turing Institute fellow

  • Adrienne LaFrance

    Adrienne LaFrance

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    The Atlantic executive editor; technology critic

  • Adrienne Williams

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Former Amazon warehouse worker; AI labour activist

  • Akash Wasil

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Encode Justice; AI policy advocate

Record last updated 2026-04-25.