Ari Redbord is a Washington, D.C.-based former federal prosecutor and U.S. Treasury official who covers the intersection of technology and national security, focusing on AI, cryptocurrency, sanctions and illicit finance. He is global head of policy at TRM Labs, the AI intelligence company. Previously, Redbord was senior adviser to the deputy secretary and the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the U.S. Treasury, where he worked with OFAC and FinCEN to deploy sanctions and other authorities against illicit actors. Before Treasury, he spent 11 years as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, prosecuting terrorism, espionage, threat finance and cryptocurrency-related cases. He has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, has appeared on CNN, PBS, CNBC, and was featured in the Netflix documentary “Biggest Heist Ever.” Redbord writes regularly on how AI is reshaping national security, financial crime and the tools governments use to fight it.