#016 - Nuclear Security and Policy with Matthew Gentzel

Matthew is the Co-Lead of Longview Philanthropy’s Nuclear Weapons Policy program.

In this episode we discuss

• Matthew’s journey from the Airforce academy, to fire engineering, AI policy, and nuclear security
• Many topics related to nuclear security and international policy
• Artificial intelligence and it’s implications for influence operations
• The benefits of developing broad situation awareness and diverse teams in policy
• Longview Philanthropy’s key grantmaking areas
• How to get into policy as an engineer
• How Matthew has approached career planning and career change

Full show notes: http://engineeredforimpact.show/matthew

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Timestamps

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:01:20) Matthew

(00:02:08) Matthew's background

(00:22:23) US National Security Commission on AI

(00:35:08) Open AI

(00:46:36) Nulcear risk reduction

(01:02:12) Longview Philanthropy grantmaking

(01:45:11) Engineers in policy

(01:51:18) Communication skills

(01:58:01) Career planning and decision making

(02:10:25) Entering the policy field

(02:15:29) Transferable skills for policy

(02:27:02) Outro