person
Jason Matheny
CEO of RAND Corporation; former deputy director of OSTP
Former Biden White House deputy director of OSTP for national security; now runs RAND. Brings existential-risk-aware policy perspective to mainstream national security analysis.
Profile
expertise
Policy / meta
Specialises in AI policy, regulation, governance, philanthropy, or movement strategy. Reads the technical literature but does not produce it.
RAND CEO. Earlier OSTP and IARPA director. National-security-AI policy expertise. 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.
Senior US AI-security policy figure. Some mainstream press.
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.
RAND CEO from 2022; founding director CSET 2019. Career bridges intelligence-community to scaling-era AI policy.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues AI governance must be integrated with national-security institutions and that existential risk should be treated as a live policy object.
AI is a dual-use general purpose technology and it should be governed like one.
Closest strategy neighbours
by jaccard overlapOther people whose strategy tags overlap with Jason Matheny's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.
Record last updated 2026-04-24.