Michael is the Head of U.S. Policy for the Future of Life Institute. Previously, he was on the AI Policy team at Meta. Prior to Meta, he was the Senior Director of Tech and Human Rights for Amnesty International USA. Earlier in his career, he was an aid worker in Afghanistan, Sudan and Iraq, a foundation program officer for Humanity United, and the founder and CEO of Orange Door Research, a company that collected development and humanitarian survey data for the UN and the World Bank in conflict-affected countries.

His work has been published in the Washington Post, Guardian, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Al Jazeera, TechCrunch, Fortune, The Hill, LA Times, SF Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, and McSweeney’s. He is a graduate of Yale and Harvard Law.