Andrew W. Reddie

Andrew W. Reddie is an Associate Research Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and the Founder and Faculty Director of the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab. His research sits at the intersection of technology, politics, and security, with a focus on AI governance, cybersecurity, nuclear weapons policy, and innovation policy. He leads the emerging technology and cybersecurity portfolios at Berkeley’s Center for Security in Politics and serves as a Senior Advisor for Global Risk and AI at the Federation of American Scientists.

Reddie’s policy work engages directly with the governance challenges posed by advanced AI systems. He contributed to The California Report on Frontier AI Policy — the 2025 scholarly report commissioned by Governor Newsom that informed California’s approach to frontier AI regulation — and has written extensively on how policymakers should think about compute, risk, and regulatory design. His co-authored piece “Bigger Might Not Be Better: The Limits of Regulating AI Through Compute Thresholds” (2025) critically examines the strengths and limitations of using computational scale as a proxy for AI risk, a question central to any state-level framework for overseeing frontier models. More broadly, his research addresses how institutional structures, transparency mechanisms, and public-interest safeguards can shape the trajectory of powerful AI development — themes directly relevant to California’s emerging AI infrastructure agenda.

Beyond UC Berkeley, Reddie holds non-resident fellowships at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Center for Global Security Research and Sandia National Laboratories, and is a Future Security Scenario Lab Fellow at New America. He is affiliated faculty at Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium, the Institute of East Asian Studies, and the UC-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. His research has been published in Science, the Journal of Peace Research, the Journal of Cyber Policy, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and has been supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the MacArthur Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy. He holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University.