Matthew Burtell is a Horizon Junior Fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), working on the Foundational Research Grants team. He graduated from Yale in 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics. As an undergraduate student, he worked as a Machine Learning research assistant in a Natural Language Processing lab and also contributed to deep learning scaling law research. Prior to Yale, Matt served in the US Navy on board the USS Ronald Reagan, where he worked as a network administrator.
Computer scientists have long sought to build systems that can actively and autonomously carry out complicated goals in the real world—commonly referred to as artificial intelligence "agents." Recently, significant progress in large language models has… Read More
In their op-ed featured in Lawfare, CSET’s Matthew Burtell and Helen Toner shared their expert analysis on the significant implications of government procurement and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, emphasizing the need for high… Read More
Large language models (LLMs), the technology that powers generative artificial intelligence (AI) products like ChatGPT or Google Gemini, are often thought of as chatbots that predict the next word. But that isn't the full story… Read More
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