Matt Chessen

Resident technical expert, Center for the Geopolitics of AGI, RAND

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“we believe there's just too much uncertainty right now and none of the archetypal strategies for super intelligence can be justified because if you pre commit prematurely to any one strategy it forecloses other strategies and doesn't build the capabilities that might be needed later”
Freedom of Action: America's ASI Strategy, w/ RAND's Joel Predd, Ben Boudreaux & Matt ChessenThe Cognitive Revolution, October 28, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Giving the paper's bottom line; the host later attributes this speaker's points to Matt Chessen.
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“We can't just wait for crisis. I think the hugging face you know incident was sort of a mini crisis. And if we're going to rely just on crisis to sort of raise that level awareness, I I think we can do better in the AI policy community.”
Freedom of Action: America's ASI Strategy, w/ RAND's Joel Predd, Ben Boudreaux & Matt ChessenThe Cognitive Revolution, October 28, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Answering after the host turns to Matt, on why evidence that danger is close is not reaching policymakers.
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“I think we may be in for a rough patch in the cyber world, you know, over the next 12 to 24 months. And hopefully it's just a a narrow rough patch”
Freedom of Action: America's ASI Strategy, w/ RAND's Joel Predd, Ben Boudreaux & Matt ChessenThe Cognitive Revolution, October 28, 2026. Speaking as: Other. On cyber capabilities spreading to open-weight models, as the last of the signals this speaker is tracking.
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  1. PodcastThe Cognitive RevolutionSpeaks

    Freedom of Action: America's ASI Strategy, w/ RAND's Joel Predd, Ben Boudreaux & Matt Chessen

    In a podcast interview with Nathan Labenz, three researchers from RAND's Center for the Geopolitics of AGI present their paper on a US superintelligence strategy. They sort proposals into seven archetypes and five open questions, and argue the US should not commit to any one yet but build long-lead capabilities such as verification, evaluations and containment.