Grace M. Werner

I am a policy associate and the interim Chief of Staff at an AI verification nonprofit launching 2025. I primarily focus on research into AI’s influence on geopolitics and the development of stable verification 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 worked in global strategy at Visa; business and policy analytics at a boutique economic consulting firm; and 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)
Not by strength alone (2015)
Can We Survive Technology? (1955)
Cooperation without counting (2003)

You can email me at grace @ averi . org