Ben Buchanan served as the White House Special Advisor for Artificial Intelligence under President Biden and is now a professor at Johns Hopkins University and an adviser to Anthropic. He is the coauthor, alongside Tantum Collins, of The Bitter Struggle: Superintelligence, Superpowers, and the Fate of the World, forthcoming on November 10.
We spoke the morning after the midterms about what voters are signaling on AI, the administration’s approach to export controls, and the leadership he hopes to see from both parties heading into 2028.
