I am a Research Scholar at GovAI working on US AI policy. My primary interest is in national security strategy broadly construed. Before that, I did my BPhil in Philosophy and BA at Oxford.

lcrpatell [at] gmail [dot] com

Work in progress

• The Goals of a US National AI Project
• A US National AI Project Needs Congressional Oversight
• The Dangers of MAIM
• Strategic Transparency
• On Decisive Strategic Advantage
• Signaling Restraint
• Cooperation as Bulwark: Evolutionary Game Theory and the Internal Structure of States
• Political Capture: Modeling and Mitigating a Systemic Risk from AI
• Mitigating Risks of Power Abuse: Checks and Balances for the Era of Advanced AI

Some Favorite Text

• Derek Parfit -- On What Matters (Volume Two, Chapter 23)
• Rudolf Carnap -- Der logische Aufbau der Welt
• Richard Rorty -- Philosophy and Social Hope
• Friedrich Nietzsche (ed. Kaufmann) -- The Gay Science
• Michael Tomasello -- The Evolution of Agency
• Joe Carlsmith -- Otherness and control in the age of AGI
• Neil Theise -- Notes on Complexity
• Roshi Enkyo O'Hara -- A Winter Sesshin
• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche -- The Teacup and the Skullcup
• Yukio Mishima -- Patriotism
• Hisham Matar -- A Month in Siena
• Walt Whitman (ed. Cowley) -- Leaves of Grass
• Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The American Scholar
• Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Self-Reliance