Hamza is AI and National Security Lead at the Future of Life Institute. Based in Washington DC, he is leading grantmaking and federal government engagement on AI and national security risks, including AI intersection with WMD and cyber capabilities, AI integration into military systems including nuclear command and control, and compute security.

His work on these issues has been featured in CNN, Fox, WSJ, TIME, POLITICO, Axios , the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Lancet, Foreign Affairs, and the United Nations, as well as in collaborations with experts at the State Department and Department of Homeland Security.

Hamza has served as a Gleitsman Leadership Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Public Leadership and has completed a Master in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He has previously completed undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in international relations and policy from the London School of Economics.