As part of the plan, HKS will launch a new tech policy concentration for its master’s in public policy candidates and has hired two AI and policy professors, including MIT’s Stephen Casper, who joined HKS this summer. The goal is to ensure that they can use the powerful tools to solve public policy problems “and not just be observers or passive consumers” of AI, said Weinstein, Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at HKS and a government professor at the College. Unlike other national security technologies, such as the internet or the nuclear bomb, AI development is not being led by government, but by the private sector. Gordon, who hopes to start an AI safety nonprofit, supports the push to expand and deepen the School’s focus on AI and technology. So, using generative AI, students built voice-training tools that used real-world data to simulate 911 callers.