Biography
Nathan Heath works across AI safety evaluation, governance architecture, and national-security risk. He spent six years supporting the Department of Defense as a decision scientist, helping senior stakeholders reason through emerging technology, alliance dynamics, operational risk, and hard choices under uncertainty. He has also conducted frontier AI red-team and safety evaluation work for OpenAI and Anthropic.
He founded Syntony to help organizations turn AI safety evidence into decisions they can defend: what a system can do, how it can fail, who owns the risk, and what governance response follows from the evidence.
His current research focuses on systems dynamics modeling for frontier AI risk, methods for improving defenses of testimony archives against synthetic media attacks, and defense industrial cooperation in Europe.
Nathan previously worked at the U.S. Department of State, Hudson Institute, the U.S. House of Representatives, and Harvard Law School.
His work has been presented at the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI at UNESCO House, UNIDIR, the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics, the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy, the American University of Paris, the International Institute for Justice, and the UK MoD Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance. His writing has appeared in War on the Rocks, RAND Europe, World Politics Review, PRISM, and The Washington Post.
Nathan regularly contributes commentary on AI safety and analytic philosophy to LessWrong. He also leads the North Carolina chapter of the OpenAI Forum and contributes research to the Meta Oversight Board and the EvalEval Coalition.
Selected credentials
- Expert Advisor for catastrophic AI risk, Cloud Security Alliance
- Truman National Security Fellow
- BlueDot Impact Fellow
- AI Strategy & Governance certification, Wharton
- AI + National Security certification, Special Competitive Studies Project
Education
- M.A. in Law and Diplomacy, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
- Politics, Philosophy, and Economics studies, Oxford
- Diplomatic and business strategy studies, Harvard
Selected prior institutions
- U.S. Department of State
- Hudson Institute
- U.S. House of Representatives
- Harvard Law School