Federation of American Scientists

There are probably ways you could describe all these things in philosophical or more neutral, less religious language.

The way the Federation of Atomic Scientists, they put out a short film after 1945 and it was One World or None.

It shows a nuclear bomb blowing up the world.

And, you know, the way I often describe it is, yeah, one world or none.

We are very honored today to have Clara Longhin with us.

I met Clara through the Federation of American Scientists, where she helped organize meetings, um, with a couple of the folks that we've been interviewing recently about, uh, procurement of AI stuff.

Clara, thank you so much for joining us.

Could you give us a little bit of background of and how you ended up at the Federation for American Scientists?

Thanks, Jake, for inviting me.

I'm excited to have this conversation today.

So I am a senior manager of AI policy at the Federation of American Scientists.

I have been at FAS for about two years, um, where I work on a variety of different AI topics from fairness, um, anti-bias, uh, mitigation efforts, privacy, and recently I've also taken on our catastrophic risk portfolio.

If that pipeline dries up because of budget pressures, the effects won't be felt immediately, but they will be felt.

For anyone in this audience who has thought about science policy but doesn't know how to engage, I genuinely encourage you to look into programs like the MIT Science Policy Initiative or the equivalent at your institution or organizations like the Federation of American Scientists or the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships.

The technical community needs more of its own people in these conversations, not fewer.

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Next, I spoke to two people who are pursuing decarbonization efforts through very different means.

Hannah Safford is the co-director for the Center for Regulatory Ingenuity, which is run by the Federation of American Scientists.

And Noel Hesegawa is the chief executive of the Port of Long Beach.

The port is aiming for net zero emissions by 2050.

This is not the CIA, right? These are, like, regular scientist-type people.

The Federation of American Scientists does a lot of these estimates.

They say about 90, uh, is a, is a good guess, and I have no way of knowing.

It's not that they couldn't make more, but the idea is that that's-

Arms Control Association, that's one.

Federation of American Scientists, that's two.

Union of Concerned Scientists, that's three.

International Institute for Strategic Studies, that's four.