Grace M. Werner

I am the U.S. policy lead at AVERI, an AI verification nonprofit. I primarily lead external strategy and research AI evaluation mechanisms.

Broadly, I believe that all sensible approaches to managing the development of artificial intelligence converge on three priorities: US leadership, international engagement, and formal verification mechanisms for AI safety and security commitments.

Previously, I researched the international and geopolitical dimensions of AI; worked in global strategy at Visa; and managed projects on intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance at Sandia National Laboratories.

M.Sc. in international relations, international political economy, London School of Economics; B.A. in political science, summa cum laude, University of New Mexico.

Bookshelf

The Idiot (1868)
If on a winter's night a traveler (1979)
Flowers for Algernon (1959)
A Swim In The Pond In The Rain (2021)
The Makioka Sisters (1936)
Spring Snow (1969)
States and Markets (1988)
The Human Use of Human Beings (1950)
The Great Divorce (1945)
The emotional dog and its rational tail (2001)
The Origins of Political Order (2011)
Active Inference (2022)
Not by strength alone (2015)
Can We Survive Technology? (1955)
The Red and the Black (1830)

You can email me at grace @ averi dot org