Chase Hasbrouck is Senior Advisor, Contingency Planning at the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), where he works on contingency planning for AI loss-of-control incidents. His work focuses on applying established incident-response and security practice to increasingly autonomous AI systems. He is also an advisor to METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research), a nonprofit that evaluates the capabilities and risks of frontier AI systems, where he works on security.

Chase retired from the U.S. Army in 2026 as a Lieutenant Colonel after 20 years in cyber operations and incident response. Most recently, he was Chief of the Forensics and Malware Analysis Branch at U.S. Army Cyber Command, where he led the analysts who investigate malicious software on Army networks worldwide. As a 2023 DARPA Service Fellow, he worked on the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), and he continues to advise DARPA, including leading a study on AI-enabled cyber attack and defense. He writes about AI security on his Substack, Layer Eight, and holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.