Irene Kim is a senior at Yale majoring in global affairs with a focus on how emerging technologies are reshaping national security and global power. At the White House National Economic Council, she worked with the AI and technology portfolio, where she drafted memos on U.S.–China competition and joined high-level inter-agency calls during the CrowdStrike outage, gaining a rare vantage point into how technical failures ripple into national security decision-making. At DeepMedia.AI, she supported the Air Force’s integration of deepfake detection tools to counter disinformation.