Edward (“Ted”) Wittenstein is a senior lecturer in Global Affairs and 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, Ted teaches undergraduate, graduate, and law courses on intelligence, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, national security decision-making, and the outer space domain. He 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 Dr. Henry Kissinger’s papers to Yale. Ted is a visiting 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.

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