Ami Fields-Meyer

Ami Fields-Meyer is a Senior Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. From 2021 to 2024, Fields-Meyer served in the White House, including as Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, playing a critical role in shaping American science and technology policy — including the U.S. approach to artificial intelligence — and leading key efforts to protect Americans’ civil rights and civil liberties.

At the White House, Fields-Meyer stewarded a high-profile portfolio including efforts on responsible innovation, civil rights and consumer protection, national security, and racially and religiously motivated violence. He led the development of measures in President Biden’s historic AI executive order to protect vulnerable people from tech harms, and secured over $200 million in commitments from 10 major philanthropies to advance public-interest technology. Fields-Meyer also directed preparations for Vice President Harris’s historic visit to the United Kingdom, helping coordinate the U.S. position on the first international AI agreement.

Fields-Meyer previously served as Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to Dr. Alondra Nelson in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he led the development of the AI Bill of Rights, the landmark U.S. guidance on protecting Americans’ rights in the AI age. In this role he also oversaw the design of America’s first national strategy to eliminate systemic barriers to STEM careers and coordinated the launch of a parallel $1.2 billion public-private partnership, as well as a change in U.S. policy to make all federally funded research immediately available to the public at no cost.

A former speechwriter to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and communications director for California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, Fields-Meyer has advised national civil rights organizations and is an advisor to the MacArthur Foundation. He is a frequent speaker on issues of public policy and his writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Talking Points Memo, and The Forward. He is a graduate of Emory University and was a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs.