Leadership | AI Imperative 2030 | American Security Project

Leaders that drive public conversation on how to build AI that promotes the values of an open world.

Top minds in AI research, commercial industry moguls and experienced military leaders with one goal in mind – protect democracy by enabling AI in the United States.

Director

Courtney Manning

Courtney Manning is the Director of AI Imperative 2030 at The American Security Project, where she leads a team of cross-disciplinary stakeholders to investigate and debate the critical geostrategic forces driving the global AI race in the 21st century. In addition to convening and platforming AI thought leaders around the world, her work on U.S. industrial controls explores the balance between innovation and regulation in the context of artificial intelligence and other dual-use technologies.

Senior Advisor

David Wade

David Wade spent two decades at the highest levels of the State Department, on Capitol Hill, and as an adviser to two national presidential campaigns. Wade was the Chief of Staff to Secretary of State John F. Kerry and the Department of State for more than two years. Wade was awarded the Department’s highest honor — the Distinguished Honor Award — when he left government service in the summer of 2015 to found GreenLight Strategies. As Senior Advisor for AI Imperative 2030, Wade is dedicated to positioning the U.S. as a global leader in the race for AI dominance and preserving the values of an open world.

AI Imperative 2030

Chinese investment in AI pairs with its Military-Civil Fusion strategy: a “whole-of-society” approach to 21st century warfare.

The United States must maintain its competitive advantage in key areas of technological innovation and capital.

AI IMPERATIVE 2030 will reframe the debate around AI to advocate for the imperative that the open world – led by the U.S. – wins the AI race.

Chinese investment in AI pairs with its Military-Civil Fusion strategy: a “whole-of-society” approach to 21st century warfare.

The United States maintains a competitive advantage in key areas of innovation and capital.

Project 2030 will reframe the debate around AI to advocate for the imperative that the open world – led by the U.S. – wins the AI race.