249 · Tier 5 — High-leverage niche and emerging figures
Quinta Jurecic
Senior editor
AI position
Aware of x-risk
Hosted one episode weighing AI existential risk vs. near-term harms, not a recurring beat.
Why influential
Shapes how courts, investigations and executive power are understood by legal professionals, policymakers, advocates and news audiences. Primary policy lanes: democracy; courts; executive power; national security.
Who pays attention
National-security lawyers, judges, agency counsel, Hill staff, intelligence professionals and legal journalists
Work samples
- The Lawfare Podcast: Talking AI with Data and Society's Janet Haven
Oct 5, 2023 · podcast
Jurecic co-hosts with Matt Perault; discussion weighs existential AI risk against near-term harms and regulatory approaches.
- The Lawfare Podcast: Will Generative AI Reshape Elections?
Nov 30, 2023 · podcast
Jurecic and Eugenia Lostri discuss generative AI's impact on elections with UNC tech-policy researchers Matt Perault and Scott Babwah Brennen (not AI-lab/research figures).
AI-world contacts
Janet Haven — Executive Director; AI governance policy expert, Data & Society / National AI Advisory Committee
- Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Guest interviewed by Jurecic on AI governance and existential risk tradeoffs, Oct 2023