Elizabeth Kelly

Elizabeth Kelly is Head of Beneficial Deployments at Anthropic, where she works to ensure that AI benefits all humanity. She was the founding Director of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the White House National Economic Council, where she was a driving force behind the Biden Administration’s domestic AI policy. She was also a senior policy advisor on the Biden-Harris Transition Team and in the Obama White House. In the private sector, Elizabeth was Senior Vice President of Growth for Capital One Investing, which acquired United Income, a fintech start-up that she helped grow as SVP of Operations. Elizabeth holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford, and a B.A. from Duke University. Elizabeth was recognized by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in AI in 2024.