>>16396742

Matthew Leavitt worked for Facebook.

The FAIR AI residency brings individuals with non-traditional backgrounds into AI research by pairing them with FAIR researchers to identify and solve novel AI problems. I lead and collaborated on a series of projects applying empirical approaches to understanding and improving deep neural networks.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-leavitt-6797703b

>>16396764

There is a William R Leavitt who works for USAID and pops up in the Wikileaks Clinton emails. I'm guessing the R stands for Robert as he's called Bob here.

https://www.wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/30306

https://2017-2020.usaid.gov/who-we-are/organization/leadership-listing