Steven Veld
Steven Veld is an AI strategy and governance researcher, with a particular focus on scenario-based forecasting for multipolar AI futures. He was a 2025 policy fellow with the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS), where he worked on Congressional engagement with the AI Policy Network. Before that, he was a ML Alignment and Theory Scholars (MATS) fellow with the AI Futures Project. He is completing a BS in Computer Science at UCLA, and has prior experience working on biosecurity and compute governance.
Opt-In Surveillance Is Approaching
AIs with access to all our data will soon be able to vouch for us to others. As people come to trust AI judgments of character, not sharing one will look suspicious.