Education & Early Career
In 1996, Matheny graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from this school
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Matheny was appointed to OSTP by this administration
What is the Biden Administration?
Matheny joined IARPA under this administration
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In 2020, Matheny testified before this House committee
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This congressional candidate is associated with the effective altruism school of thought Matheny is
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In 2013, Matheny completed his PhD in this subject
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Between his stints at IARPA and OSTP, Matheny was the founding director of this center at Georgetown Univeristy
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While director of IARPA, Matheny participated in a conference hosted by GW with this representative of the CIA
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This was the subject of the 2020 hearing at which Matheny testified
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Matheny identified three areas of government as places effective altruists could have a positive impact; name one
What are global health, animal welfare, catastrophic risks?
His Bachelor of Arts is in this subject
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In the White House readout of the Summit on Quantum Industry and Society, Matheny reinforced the administration’s commitment to this initiative
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Matheny participated in the panel on Disruptive Technologies and Digital what during the 2016 CIA-GW Intelligence Conference
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At the beginning of the pandemic, Matheny co-authored an op-ed with these two bipartisan senators
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According to Matheny, this is an incident in which an autonomous system worked as intended but led to unforeseen consequences
Matheny says he joined government to give this to “people who were smarter than me”
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Besides Deputy Director for National Security, Matheny wore two other hats while at OSTP; name one
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This event that Maheny participated in was cited by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in their report on innovation in the intelligence community
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In 2016, this member of Congress submitted for the record a paper co-authored by Matheny
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According to Matheny, we should be more worried, not less worried, about this potential way the world could end
What is accidental nuclear war?
Matheny’s doctoral dissertation was on the economics of this
What are the Economics of Pharmaceutical Development: Cost, Risks, and Incentives?
This former Google executive who chaired the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence had very close ties to OSTP while Matheny worked there
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During his appearance at Bloomberg Next in 2017, Matheny said he was excited about the potential for AI to automate the early stages of this
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This RAND researcher was also a co-author on the Matheny paper submitted for the record at the House E & C hearing
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These are two examples of recently discovered catastrophic risks that Matheny is concerned about
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