This week’s we focused on AI capabilities—not as an end in themselves, but as a way of grounding how we later think about risk. It started quite concretely, with capabilities like language models, image generation, and then this idea of multi-modality. At first, I thought multi-modal systems were simply about translating between formats—image to text,Continue reading “Learning to Look at AI Through Capability”
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Beginning an AI Safety Fellowship: First Impressions
Today, the 1st of February 2026, I attended the meet-and-greet session for the fellowship conducted by AI Safety Collab . This post is part of a small but intentional experiment: to keep a public, honest record of what I am learning, thinking about, and struggling with as I move through this programme. The opening sessionContinue reading “Beginning an AI Safety Fellowship: First Impressions”
What Today’s AI Systems Reveal About Power, Trust, and Governance
Artificial intelligence is often discussed as a future problem. In spite of the recent rise in debates surrounding the safety of AI models there is a complacence, a feeling that AI governance is a thing for the future—something we will need to regulate once it becomes sufficiently advanced. This idea is misleading. The systems alreadyContinue reading “What Today’s AI Systems Reveal About Power, Trust, and Governance”
How Are Models Like GPT-4 Trained? A Gentle Introduction
AI models like ChatGPT continue to amaze people with their ability to converse, explain, write, and even comfort. Many of us have had the same moment of astonishment: How can a machine talk like this? How can it solve problems, analyse literature, write code, and create art? To understand this, we have to look beneathContinue reading “How Are Models Like GPT-4 Trained? A Gentle Introduction”
Why Would Anyone Want to Read About You?
Most of us get up in the mornings, get ready, work, eat, maybe spend some time with our families, sleep and repeat the whole process again. Then why would anyone want to read about our ordinary lives?
What Makes You Pick Up a Book?
We tend to pick up books to satisfy our curiosity, seek an answer, get entertained and even escape. Our reasons for reading a book serve to fulfil some kind of need within us.
The Struggle for an Identity
Who am I? Am I symbolic of a class, ethnicity or race? Keep reading to find out how Amit Chaudhuri’s Odysseus Abroad will compel you to earnestly examine your constructed identity.
Beating the Monster ‘Academic Writing’ Through Templates
Find out how writing templates, formulated for you or by you, could help you beat the fear of academic writing and instead treat it as a conversation.
Who Campaigned for Women’s Reforms in 19th Century India?
Were men from upper class, upper caste Hindu families the sole reformers campaigning for women’s reforms in India? What about men from other religions, classes and sections of society? What about female social reformers and muslim reformers? What part did the British play?
The Last of the Mohicans: Book Review
A thrilling tale winding through the wilderness of the American landscape, where the pursuer and the pursued keep changing places, seldom allowing the reader a moment of respite.
Sahitye Jeevanam 