person
Eric Schmidt
Former Google CEO; AI national security advocate
Led Google for a decade and has since become a leading voice on AI and national security via the Special Competitive Studies Project. Argues the US-China frame is primary and that national-security-grade AI infrastructure must be built.
Profile
expertise
Policy / meta
Specialises in AI policy, regulation, governance, philanthropy, or movement strategy. Reads the technical literature but does not produce it.
Former Google CEO/chair. Co-chair of the National Security Commission on AI; runs Special Competitive Studies Project. Operates in policy and investment, not research.
recognition
Household name
Name recognition outside the AI/CS community. Featured by mainstream press, a Wikipedia page in many languages, a published bestseller, or holds a position the lay public knows.
Recurring senior-statesman press appearances; congressional testimony.
vintage
Deep-learning rise
Came up post-AlexNet. ImageNet, AlphaGo, transformer paper. DeepMind, Google Brain, FAIR establish the modern lab template.
Google CEO 2001-2011. NSCAI co-chair 2018. Deep-learning era policy frame.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Race to aligned SIendorses
Build aligned superintelligence first, before adversariesFrames AI development as a national-security competition with China; advocates for government-industry partnership.
We are in a technology race with China, one the US must win.
Closest strategy neighbours
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.