Zachary Arnold

Now

Senior Director for Programs and General Counsel, Horizon Institute for Public Service

Before

Project Lead, Emerging Technology Observatory

Research Fellow, Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Selected writing on tech

10/2024Introducing the AI Governance and Regulatory Archive (AGORA): An Analytic Infrastructure for Navigating the Emerging AI Governance Landscape (lead author)
8/2024AI Regulation’s Champions Can Seize Common Ground — or Be Swept Aside (with Helen Toner)
9/2023AI tools as science policy advisers? The potential and the pitfalls (with several co-authors)
8/2023The Next Frontier in AI Regulation Is Procedure (with Micah Musser)
7/2022"China's AI companies: hybrid players" (with Karen Sutter) and "The balance sheet: China's AI advantages and challenges" (with Anna Puglisi), in Chinese Power and Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives and Challenges (Routledge, 2022)
7/2021AI Accidents: An Emerging Threat (with Helen Toner)
4/2021Chinese Students Are Not a Fifth Column (with Remco Zwetsloot)
3/2021Understanding Chinese Government Guidance Funds (with Ngor Luong and Ben Murphy)
1/2021A New Institutional Approach to Research Security in the United States (with Melissa Flagg)
10/2020Most of America’s “Most Promising” AI Startups Have Immigrant Founders (with Tina Huang and Remco Zwetsloot)
9/2020Tracking AI Investment: Initial Findings From the Private Markets (with Ilya Rahkovsky and Tina Huang)
7/2020The US is Turning Away The World’s Best Minds—and This Time, They May Not Come Back (with Tina Huang)
1/2020Foreign Brains Help America Compete (with Remco Zwetsloot)
12/2019Chinese Public AI R&D Spending: Provisional Findings (with Ashwin Acharya)
9/2019Immigration Policy and the U.S. AI Sector (with Roxanne Heston, Remco Zwetsloot and Tina Huang)

Other work

3/2021Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on cross-border investment controls
10/2020Regulatory comment to the Department of Homeland Security opposing a proposed time limit on U.S. student visas
6/2017Preventing Industrial Disasters in a Time of Climate Change: A Call for Financial Assurance Mandates