Edward Wittenstein

About

Edward “Ted” Wittenstein is the director of the Schmidt Program on Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, and National Power, a signature teaching and research initiative of the Yale Jackson School that examines how AI has the potential to alter fundamental building blocks of world order. A former diplomat and intelligence professional, he teaches undergraduate, graduate, and law courses on intelligence, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, national security decision-making, and the outer space domain. Wittenstein also serves as co-director of the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy, founded upon the donation of the late former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s papers to Yale. He is also a faculty fellow at Yale Law School’s Center for Global Legal Challenges, as well as a faculty affiliate in the School of Engineering & Applied Science’s Department of Computer Science.

Ted is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. Prior to returning to work for Yale, he held a variety of positions at the U.S. Department of Defense, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Department of State.

Education

• Doctor of Law (JD), Yale Law School
• BA in Ethics, Politics & Economics, Yale University

Courses taught

• GLBL 2392: Intelligence, Espionage, and American Foreign Policy (Fall)   
• CPSC 6110 / GLBL 6115: Topics in Computer Science and Global Affairs (Fall)   
• USAF 2014 / GLBL 2280: The Space Domain and Global Security (Spring)   
• GLBL 6610 (Part I) & GLBL 6611 (Part II): Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, and National Power (Fall/Spring)