The False Truths - Time to Restore History

There can be no reconciliation and healing without being honest about the past.

I wrote this article for my school newspaper. Drawing inspiration from Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s iconic poem ‘Hum Dekhenge’, I call out the oppressors of every age, ideology and society. I brought together themes such as religious segregation, India's colonial struggle, the history of genocide behind America's famous holidays, Churchill and his war crimes, how Colonial Opressors and Allied Powers distorted and trivialized and whitewashed history (NOT figuratively) leaving the future generations disoriented and uprooted.

Climate Literacy

Empowering voices of Women - The Othered Half

Women play a critical role in their family’s economic affairs, they are uniquely positioned to be vital agents of sustainability in their communities. Thus, including them in leading the mission against climate injustice is only natural.

Nuclear Proliferation and AI Governance

By your truly!

Having recently watched Nolan’s Oppenheimer, naturally, I have to address the lessons that the history of Nuclear Arms Race gives us for AI. Nuclear weapons are analogous to AI in many ways, so this period may hold lessons for AI governance.

Open Source AI Develpment or Ban it?

Quick Thought!

My response to UK Goevrnement's call for a blanket ban on AI development, collaboration, innovation in response to the emerging cases of AI harms.

Climate Injustice, Colonialism, and various Intersectionalities

Coming soon! Stay Tuned! Gave a quick sneak peek in this writeup.

Climate emergency is a legacy of colonialism. To educate the masses and spark a public discourse, I want to create an interactive digital handbook. And possibly also cover some vault-tracks within the project to understand disproportionate impacts of climate on previously colonized nations and indigenous peoples, focusing on India (pretty much the only thriving ancient civilisation known to mankind, second to Africa.) Eventually, I want to make this handbook a part of the United Nations' campaign.

The One-Way Train to Doomsville

AI Governance Know-How

How I accedentally encountered the not so perilling Perils of AI? Call for better Governance and How? Who all have the skin in the game? What we can learn from Animal Intelligence? Accident, Misuse, Structural Risks and deconstructing other jargons like 'AGI'.

Colonialism and Democratization of AI Governance

How disproportionately AI impacts former colonial powers vs colonised nations, parallels from Nuclear Regime, Call for inclusion of the Global South, and Public Input into AI.

For AI governance that goes beyond borders and is ethical in the truest sense, it is important that it includes voices of all nations and races. To secure their committed participation, it is important to include them diplomatically.

Stock Market Investments and AI Research and Development

A tiny attempt

To what extent does high tech development, including AI, have similar dynamics to financial bubbles

NanoTechnology, BioTechnology, Space Technology for AI

Exactly why I keep emphasizing on the need for multidisciplinary collaborations.

Lessons that other scientific fields hold for AI Governance.

Policy Instruments and Self-Governance Model

Building reliable AI safety cases and some traditional methods of governance to learn from

Some of the most common policy instruments available to governments and society that could aid AI governance, preemptive and retributive.

What the World Can Learn from China

Pattern Recognition

Lessons for AI governance don't have to only be informed by AI and AI failures, it can come from policy making patterns of different nations from contexts entirely different from AI. As someone most enthusiastic about patterns in geopolitics, I believe we can learn a lot about agile policymaking and governance from China.

Reinforcement Learning for AI

Turning Recursive AI on its head, using Reinforcement Learning as an approach to attain some semblance of ethicality in AI.

If AI systems are so great at learning from the past, why not nudge it just enough to unlearn biases too. Perhaps, we can incentivize its truthfulness. Good old reward system

Call for Increased Collaboration Between Public and Private Sector for Better AI Governance

Essntially, private sector is good at innovation, with public watchdogs holding them accountable. Works.

Connecting the private sector in AI with the public sector who are concerned with policy making and AI regulatory bodies promises preservation of societal values in AI governance.

How can you contribute in AI Governance

Idea Doc

Some streams of work that AI Governance and policymaking constitutes.

Fuzzy Logic

Studying Impact of Noise Pollution on Public Health using Fuzzy Techniques

Leveraging Fuzzy Logic to study public health and making policy recommendations is of greater interest to me due to its flexible nature and proximity to real world applications. Notion of fuzzy sets, as opposed to crisp binary sets, is able to closely model the human cognition and thinking process.

The Ethics Of Whistleblowing

The ethical dilemma of conflicting loyalties and a conflict between personal and organisational values.

For this article, we looked at the Peter Jubb’s paper titled 'Whistleblowing A Restrictive Definition and Interpretation' published in Springer 1999. It discusses about what are the different, often overlooked, aspects of whistleblowing and why it is essential to have an ethical focus on it.

Fundamental Human Rights vs National Prosperity

Co-authored with with Jayant Malik, Mrinal, Prabhat Soni, and Pratyusha Lakshmi.

Some of the themes that we covered are Ethics of Migration, Propagandized Education or Indoctrination, Data Privacy, Sedition Act of 1918, and Development-Induced Displacement.

The Case for Torturing the Ticking Bomb Terrorist

Based on “The Case for Torturing the Ticking Bomb Terrorist” study done by Alan Dershowitz, an American lawyer and academician.

The ethical question that I am trying to address here is, “Is it ethical to resort to lethal (or non lethal) physical or mental torture in order to extract information from a suspected bomb terrorists in order to save more innocent lives”, “Whatever your response may be, would you answer the same if it was your loved one at the place of that suspected terrorist”

Climate Change

A critical analysis of the arguments made by Peter Singer in his book “Practical ethics”.

We all have an obligation to attempt to push our Government to do better and set bigger aims towards improving the environment, and helping the ones who are hit hardest. Global Governments should ensure that the developing nations do not bear the brunt of climate change. We cannot afford to be mute spectators anymore.

Virtue Ethics

Argue whether Virtue ethics can be a viable approach to contemporary ethical issues.

In this paper, I cover Aristotelian Virtue, Platonic Virtue, Phillippa Foot’s work and its applications in Feminist Movement, Whistleblowing, Animal Ethics, Punishment and the Criminal Justice System, Abortion.

Animal Rights

Indifference is more dangerous than anger and hatred", Elie Wiesel, a Noble laureate.

Our indifference to an animal’s pain, a being that is habituated different from us, says an awful lot about our species. The movement for animal liberation is an ask for extending our most basic human decency to animals. In his 1975 account, "Animal Liberation, A New Ethics" for Our Treatment of Animals, Singer makes an appeal against speciesism, thus marking a historic shift in our perception of morality and its boundaries that too often fail to expand beyond homo sapiens, the 'cognitively superior' being. This founding philosophical work by Peter Singer put the discourse on animal ethics on the global map.

Is ethical relativism a valid and practicable position?

Types, Dimensions, Comparisons

In this paper, I covered the basic notion of relativism, the various sub-domains and types that emerge from it, and the implications that follow from the concept of relativism. I got the inspiration from Mary Midgely’s paper on “Trying Out One’s New Sword”, Louis Pojman’s “Who’s to Judge”, and Barbara Mackinnon’s “Ethics Theory and Contemporary Issues” for writing this paper.

My experience with Mercatus Center's Doctoral Fellowship

Coming Soon!

The Great War

Coming Soon!

(But seriously, this is not about Taylor Swift's all-time-record-breaking Grammy-winning deeply vulnerable and personal album "Midnights". This article will actually be about Israel war and Palestine's struggle for Independence, the privilege reality-check it became for the rest of us, and the lessons that historical blunders can teach us about future. Because, Karma is sweet like justice.)

Ukraine Math and Science Achievement Fund

Mentor and Program Advisor

I am helping high school students who had to flee Ukraine post the Russian invasion find educational opportunities and funding in their new country of refuge, new school, and get selected for top CS programs in the West. Some of my mentees recently got acceptances from University of Cambridge, British Columbia, University of Toronto. Currently helping their organisers to restructure the program to achieve better results and build a stronger community.

Rewriting the Code (RTC)

Advisory Board Member, Mentor, Educator

Community of 14,000+ exceptional career women who are thriving engineers and tech leaders. They come from 800+ universities, 81 countries. I helped create strategy and identify focal points for the RTC international community outreach. Together, I raised scholarships to assist my mentees with their educational expenses, managed to get community scholarships from Google, Anita Borg organization. I assisted our digital libraries to be rich with beautiful, expansive narratives. It has been >3 years since I have been actively tutoring, mentoring >100 RTC women to groom their profiles and hone skills to get their dream jobs in big tech, hosting workshops, organizing celebrations for community members who didn’t have a family to return to during holidays, advocating for one another, helping my mentees secure offers from topmost international finance and tech firms, help them strategize and negotiate salary jumps from $40,000 to upward of $100,000, standing up against toxic gender norms and much more.

National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights

Program Manager and Community Builder, Economic Rights Team

Led the LunchnLearn program at the NCDHR, an NGO eradicating caste-based discrimination against Dalits. Convince 25 families to enroll their girl child into our program. Taught English, Finance, Mathematics, CS, soft skills, general hygiene.

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

Academic Mentor and Community Counsellor

Helped students make the most of their undergrad program, get the right research opportunities, graded papers, conducted repeat tutorials, offered office hours, assisted student-led projects, helped streamline the course structure to improve student learning. Coordinated summer course logistics, project infrastructure, and culture. Taught to design, analyze, and critique applications of data structures and algorithms in the areas of science, politics, and justice.

Women in Tech IIITD

Community Director, Opportunity Lead, Mentor

Spearheaded the campus community, telling women’s stories to the world, mentoring one-on-one. I rose the community to >5k members from universities PAN India. Invested in belief capital, resources, interview prep for collegiate women, profile polishing, interview grooming.

Enactus IIITD

Women Empowerment Cell Manager, Partnerships and New Initiatives

It’s a leadership platform that enables sustainable development through Technology and Innovation. Managed their campaign that advocates right to accessible education for a girlchild. I was a counsellor and lead for the Violence Against Women branch of Enactus IIITD.

Girl Up, United Nations Foundation

Mentor and Advisor to the co-founders, IIITD Chapter

A movement to advance girls’ skills, rights, opportunities to be leaders. I work on bringing right ideas into implementation, mentor the all-female founding team to lead community effectively, bringing awareness and relevant opportunities to collegiate women.

The Coding School

Teaching Assistant and Curriculum Author

Volunteered for The Coding School, national 501c3 nonprofit, preparing and enhancing modules for learning programming concepts, held coding and mentorship sessions for underrepresented middle and high school students who are differently-abled, to learn how to code.

Lean In IIITD

Community Mentor and Tutor

A global community dedicated to helping women achieve their ambitions. I led their mentorship program, planning what the program should practically achieve. Understanding market space to bring relevant opportunities for women.