Why Sahitye Jeevanam?
Hey there!
I am Trishna, currently based in India and committed to contribute meaningfully to the world through my career.
Sahitye Jeevanam
Adding meaning to life through a study of Literature
Literature, as I have come to understand it, is writing that forces us to pay attention to life–who I am, my relationships, the world I live in and the world I shape through my decisions and actions.
My life philosophy is to live meaningfully and contribute where I can. Literature and writing has always been a means for me to deeply understand the world. That world is now changing rapidly with advances in transformative AI. I have decided to focus my efforts to ensure this transformation benefits us rather than harms us by contributing to frameworks that makes this technology a tool rather a source of risk.
साहित्येजीवनम् (Sahitye Jeevanam) remains a place to share articles and essays on Literature and life. It is now also a space where I think through questions about AI–its capabilities, its governance, and its ethical implications.
What you will find here
By reading Sahitye Jeevanam, you will find:
• Posts on what AI means as a technology and questions about its governance, morality and ethics.
• Essays on literary texts across genres, periods and nations–hopefully adding meaning to some part of our lives
• An ongoing attempt to connect these two threads: how we have always made sense of life through stories, and how we might make sense of a world transformed by AI
This is still a project in early stages. Kindly bear with me as it develops.
About me
I studied Electronics and Communication Engineering at Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyala graduating with Honours. I then spent nearly seven years with Tata Consultancy Services working in the automotive domain.
Driven by a passion for Literature, I left my job and took courses in critical reading, writing and research with University of Oxford’s Department of Continuing education. I then completed a Masters in Comparative Literature at The University of Edinburgh, graduating with a Distinction.
During this time, I discovered the 80,000 Hours community and began engaging with ideas about how to have a meaningful impact through one’s career, while working with the Royal Bank of Canada. I completed the Introduction to Effective Altruism course run by the Centre for Effective Altruism which helped me to identify AI Governance as the area where I want to contribute.
I am currently completing BlueDot Impact’s AI Governance curriculum independently while actively seeking roles in this space
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Thanks for reading,
Trishna
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