Andrew Burt

Andrew Burt is a lawyer, entrepreneur, and former national security official and a leading expert in the intersection of law and artificial intelligence. Over the last decade, he has built companies, law firms, and software systems that have revolutionized how AI is managed for legal risk.

As a pioneer in the field of legal engineering, he founded and led the world's first legal engineering team focused on automating data governance in 2016. In 2019, he founded and later sold Luminos.Law, the first-ever law firm run by lawyers and data scientists solely focused on artificial intelligence. In 2023, he co-founded Luminos.AI, the first AI governance company focused on legal risk, where he currently serves as CEO.

Over the course of his career, Andrew has worked at the highest levels of government to shape national data, cybersecurity, and AI policy. He served as a co-author of the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the premier standard for how the US government and major companies around the world manage AI risks. He has advised the US military and financial regulators on how to deploy AI in high-risk environments. As a former FBI official, Andrew has been involved in some of the highest-profile cyber incidents over the last two decades, including serving as lead author of the FBI after-action report on the 2014 attack on Sony Pictures.

Andrew's articles on data, cybersecurity, and AI have been published in the New York Times, Financial Times, and Harvard Business Review, where he has been a frequent contributor since 2018. Harvard Business Review Press has reprinted his articles in four books on privacy, cybersecurity, and AI.

As a visiting fellow, Andrew is focused on translating his hands-on experience building and deploying AI systems into legal scholarship, and has published research papers for Stanford’s Hoover Institution, the Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology, and the Information Society Project’s Digital Future Whitepaper Series. He has been a visiting fellow at Yale’s Information Society Project since 2013.

Andrew holds a BA with first-class honors in linguistics and philosophy from McGill University and a JD from Yale Law School.