Tal Feldman is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School who previously built AI systems in the US government. He co-authored, with Jake Sullivan, the Eight Worlds Framework for US AI strategy under uncertainty.
Background
Before law school, Feldman developed AI systems within the US government, giving him technical practitioner experience alongside his subsequent legal and policy training.
Work in AI policy
With Jake Sullivan, the former National Security Adviser, Feldman co-authored "Geopolitics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" in Foreign Affairs (January 2026), which advanced the Eight Worlds Framework.
The framework is a 2×2×2 matrix combining three variables — AI trajectory, US strategy posture, and international alignment — that generates eight plausible worlds. These range from beneficial coordination (US leads, allies cooperate, progress bounded) to adversarial race dynamics (US lags, unaligned global actors, unbounded progress). Sullivan and Feldman present it as a way to plan for multiple futures simultaneously rather than optimizing for a single expected scenario. See Eight Worlds Framework for the full analysis.
Relationships
- co-authored: Eight Worlds Framework — with Jake Sullivan
- related: Jake Sullivan — co-author; former National Security Adviser
- related: Geopolitics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence — primary source