Dr. Alice Hunt Friend

Member, CNAS AI Governance Forum

Head of AI & Emerging Tech Policy, Google

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Alice Hunt Friend is Head of AI & Emerging Tech Policy at Google. Friend is an expert in defense politics and emerging capabilities, and has served in several roles at the U.S. Department of Defense. Most recently, she was the deputy chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense. She has a PhD in International Relations, and was previously the vice president for research and analysis at the Institute for Security and Technology and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. She has published articles in the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, War on the Rocks, Lawfare, and Just Security.

Commentary
- The Washington Post
- January 10, 2020
Why did the Pentagon ever give Trump the option of killing Soleimani?
By Alice Hunt Friend, Mara Karlin & Loren DeJonge Schulman
Commentary
- Defense One
- September 9, 2019
Two Cheers for Esper’s Plan to Reassert Civilian Control of the Pentagon
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Alice Hunt Friend & Mara Karlin
Podcast
- March 18, 2019
WOTR Podcast: Civil-Military Relations Gone Wild?
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Steven Foster, Alice Hunt Friend & Ryan Evans
Commentary
- War on the Rocks
- May 11, 2018
The Accompany They Keep: What Niger Tell Us About Accompany Missions, Combat, and Operations Other than War
By Alice Hunt Friend
Commentary
- May 3, 2018
The Pentagon's Transparency Problem
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Alice Hunt Friend

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