Joseph B. Keller
Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative
Joseph B. Keller is a visiting fellow in Foreign Policy, affiliated with the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology and Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative. His research interests include the global coordination and governance strategies for machine learning and artificial intelligence, the policy implications for emerging technologies in the global south, and the potential geopolitical consequences of climate change.
Keller was previously a senior director of congressional and federal relations for the American Psychological Association, managing an advocacy portfolio of legislative and executive branch policy issues areas including climate change, artificial intelligence, and the future of work. Prior to the association, he served as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. National Science Foundation for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At the foundation, Keller facilitated the administration of multi-lateral, international grant-making programs within the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems and supported the launch of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes competition – it provides unprecedented funding for long-term, high-reward research, with themes such as next-generation cybersecurity, trustworthy machine learning, and climate-smart agriculture and forestry. He was formerly an executive search consultant in the civic sector. In that capacity, Keller consulted with institutional committees and recruited leaders for higher education, biomedical research, and environmental conservation.
He received a bachelor’s in biological sciences from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a Meyerhoff Scholar, a master’s in computational neuroscience from Boston University, and a doctorate in cognitive science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller was an inaugural member of the Open Philanthropy technology policy fellowship program.
Joseph B. Keller is a visiting fellow in Foreign Policy, affiliated with the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology and Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative. His research interests include the global coordination and governance strategies for machine learning and artificial intelligence, the policy implications for emerging technologies in the global south, and the potential geopolitical consequences of climate change.
Keller was previously a senior director of congressional and federal relations for the American Psychological Association, managing an advocacy portfolio of legislative and executive branch policy issues areas including climate change, artificial intelligence, and the future of work. Prior to the association, he served as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. National Science Foundation for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At the foundation, Keller facilitated the administration of multi-lateral, international grant-making programs within the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems and supported the launch of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes competition – it provides unprecedented funding for long-term, high-reward research, with themes such as next-generation cybersecurity, trustworthy machine learning, and climate-smart agriculture and forestry. He was formerly an executive search consultant in the civic sector. In that capacity, Keller consulted with institutional committees and recruited leaders for higher education, biomedical research, and environmental conservation.
He received a bachelor’s in biological sciences from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a Meyerhoff Scholar, a master’s in computational neuroscience from Boston University, and a doctorate in cognitive science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller was an inaugural member of the Open Philanthropy technology policy fellowship program.