Joseph Larson

Joseph P. Larson III is currently vice president and head of government at OpenAI. He previously served as the senior vice president and chief of staff at Anduril Industries. Earlier, he was a member of the Senior Executive Service and served as the deputy chief digital and artificial intelligence officer for algorithmic warfare within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Prior to assuming these responsibilities in June 2022, Joseph was a highly qualified expert at the National Geospatial Agency and was detailed as the chief of the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team (Project Maven) in the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance Operations Directorate, Warfighter Support, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. Before his government civilian service, Joseph held several private-sector positions related to data, policy, technology, and national security. He was senior director for joint all-domain command and control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and battle management at Anduril Industries; head of business operations at Tulco Labs, a private equity firm focused on transforming highly regulated industries through machine learning that was acquired in 2020; head of AI policy and strategy at Palantir Technologies; and a law firm associate in antitrust and bankruptcy law at Sidley Austin LLP. In addition to his private-sector experience, Joseph has served for 21 years in the United States Marine Corps Reserve as an intelligence officer and information operations planner, including multiple deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom contingency operations. His last active-duty assignment was deputy chief for Project Maven at the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.