AGI Strategies

person

Tim Fist

Institute for Progress AI policy researcher

CSET alumnus who now leads AI policy at the Institute for Progress. Focused on chip export controls, compute thresholds, and domestic AI industrial policy.

current Director of Emerging Technology Policy, Institute for Progress

Strategy positions

Compute governanceendorses

Control flops via export controls, licensing, reporting

Advocates US industrial policy that couples chip export controls with domestic capacity expansion.

Export controls work only if paired with domestic capacity. Otherwise they're unilateral disarmament.
articleInstitute for Progress AI policy· Institute for Progress· 2024· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

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

  • Catherine Aiken

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    CSET researcher; China AI talent and capability

  • Cliff Young

    Cliff Young

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Google; TPU principal engineer

  • David Patterson

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    UC Berkeley emeritus; Google AI hardware; 2017 Turing Award

  • Elsa Kania

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    CNAS adjunct senior fellow; China AI specialist

  • Jordan Schneider

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    ChinaTalk podcast host; Rhodium Group

  • Lennart Heim

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Compute governance researcher at RAND

Record last updated 2026-04-25.