Applied Math Undergrad at UC Berkeley · AI Safety, Security, and Policy Research
I believe AI Safety, Security, and Alignment are among the most important problems of my lifetime. I am concerned about our trajectory, where capabilities are far outpacing our capacity for building safe and aligned systems. I want to put my energy into narrowing that gap. I’m particularly drawn to red-teaming, cryptographic compute-and-training verification, and policy research.
I'm exploring some of these questions in a Technical AI Safety class with BASIS, where we read and present research papers, run experiments, and do tabletop exercises exploring AI risk scenarios.
Before starting at UC Berkeley, I got my A.S. in Computer Science at Diablo Valley College (DVC). I worked on distributed systems at Nethermind, and I contribute to open-source projects that I care about when I can: like Firefox, Penumbra, and Namada.
Some of my other interests are, if I were to cast a wide net: Transhumanism, Cybernetic Augmentation, Biohacking, Cryonics, Spaceflight, Privacy and Anti-Surveillance Tech, Free and Open-Source Software, the @ protocol, VR/XR, HCI and Cognitive Science, Politics and political data analysis, Blogs, Skiing, and Electric Guitar.
“The challenge before you: to become fully what you now are only in hope and potential.”