Invited Speaking Engagements
2026
- May 2026, Speaker at Innovations in Biological Intelligence & Machine Agency, The Divinity School’s New Science Series, Cambridge, MA
- Mar 2026, “Evaluation Reporting in the Age of Agentic AI” at the Agentic Evaluations Workshop on the Hugging Face YouTube channel
- Mar 2026, “What if AI Systems Weren’t Chatbots?” at the PLAMADISO talk series, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin
- Feb 2026, Opening panelist at IASEAI 2026 in Paris; fireside chat at the IASEAI Open-Weight AI Risk Management workshop
2025
- Oct 2025, Panel: “AI and the Creative Industry” at the Canadian Consulate and All Tech is Human
- Oct 2025, Panel: “Rights (to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness)” at the UConn Humanities Institute AI Symposium
- Apr 2025, Panel: “Is U.S. Policy Ready for Agentic AI?” at the Center for Data Innovation
- Mar 2025, Panel on Open Source AI Regulation at the Summit on State AI Legislation (SSAIL) at the Digital Ethics Center, Yale University
- Mar 2025, NLP & Generative AI Panel at the HBS Tech Conference
- Feb 2025, Coordinated Disclosure for AI: Beyond Security Vulnerabilities at The MIT Sloan AI Conference
2024
- Oct 2024, Coordinated Disclosure for AI: Beyond Security Vulnerabilities at Strengthening AI Accountability Through Better Third-Party Evaluations hosted by Stanford HAI
- Oct 2024, Bridging the Gap: Real-World AI Biases and Responsible Governance Frameworks at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur
- Sep 2024, ERASED BY AI: Personal Experiences of the Psychological Impact of AI Bias at the Arthur AI Fest
- Jul 2024, Teaching Responsible AI: Building with open source and Hugging Face 🤗 at the Northeastern University Summer Training Program on Responsible Computing Education
- Jul 2024, Coordinated Disclosure for AI: Beyond Security Vulnerabilities at the EQUAL lab at MILA
- Feb 2024, Technology Impact on Cybersecurity at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted by Prof. Jack Weinstein, Lieutenant General, USAF
- Jan 2024, AI Vulnerability Reporting Event in the US Congress at Hackers on the Hill
2023 and Earlier
- Oct 2023, Dual Governance: The intersection of centralized regulation and crowdsourced safety mechanisms for Generative AI at NSERC CREATE - Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence
- Aug 2023, “Queer Bias Bounty: Considerations for community audits and lessons learnt” at the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, UK
- Apr 2023, “Can There be AI Art Without an Artist?” at South by SouthWest (SXSW), Austin, TX, USA
- Feb 2023, “On the evolving tension between centralized regulation and decentralized development of Text-to-Image Models” at AIDBEI at AAAI 2023
- Dec 2022, “Proxies for bias monitoring: Ethics workshop” at the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, UK
- Nov 2022, “Subverting Fair Image Search with Generative Adversarial Perturbations” as part of the Celebrating Young Researchers event, Trustworthy ML Initiative
Media Coverage and Op-Eds
2026
- Mar 2026, Sarvam AI models excel in Indic, lag frontier systems - Financial Express India
- Mar 2026, Deutsche Telekom Wants AI Agents to Talk on Your Phone for You - Wired
2025
- Nov 2025, China leapfrogs US in global market for ‘open’ AI models - Financial Times
- Nov 2025, Responsible AI podcast with Alex Alben - The AI Forum
- May 2025, Ethical Machines podcast with Reid Blackman - “We’re Not Ready for Agentic AI” - Ethical Machines
- May 2025, Can AI take your coding job? - NPR Marketplace
- Apr 2025, California finally beats Big Tech in court - Politico
- Mar 2025, Hugging-face experts warn: We shouldn’t give AI agents full control - T3N (German)
- Mar 2025, Why handing over total control to AI agents would be a huge mistake - MIT Tech Review Op-Ed
- Mar 2025, The hidden cost of brainstorming with ChatGPT - Business Insider
- Mar 2025, DeepSeek pioneers a new way for AI to ‘reason’ - Science News Explores
- Mar 2025, Hugging Face submits open-source blueprint, challenging Big Tech in White House AI policy fight - VentureBeat
- Mar 2025, Researchers Propose a Better Way to Report Dangerous AI Flaws - Wired
- Feb 2025, Two founders built a jobs board for AI agents. Humans need not apply — but their skills are still required. - Business Insider
- Feb 2025, Why truly open-source AI remains out of reach - TechCircle India
- Jan 2025, What does OpenAI get from Stargate? A $500 billion chance to build a whole new moat. - Business Insider
- Jan 2025, OpenAI’s Stargate may be tech’s biggest gamble ever, but here’s what’s really at stake - Fortune
- Jan 2025, एआई निजी जिंदगी से लेकर बिजनेस तक को बदल देगा (AI will transform everything from daily life to businesses) - Dainik Bhaskar Column
2024
- Oct 2024, These Smart Glasses Will Read Your Emotions and Watch What You Eat - Wired
- Aug 2024, This Wearable AI Notetaker Will Transcribe Your Meetings — and Someday, Your Entire Life - Wired
- Aug 2024, En Californie, la loi de protection contre l’IA amendée pour apaiser la Silicon Valley (In California, AI protection law amended to appease Silicon Valley) - Les Echos
- Aug 2024, We finally have a definition for open-source AI - MIT Technology Review
- Aug 2024, World’s biggest hacker fest spotlights AI’s soaring importance in the high-stakes cybersecurity war and its vulnerability - Fortune Magazine
- Jul 2024, पूर्वाग्रहों से भरी एआई भारत के लिए चुनौती-अवसर दोनों (AI full of prejudices both a challenge and an opportunity for India) - Dainik Bhaskar Column
- May 2024, Common image search results are overwhelmingly white, a new study finds - Fast Company
- Mar 2024, As AI tools get smarter, they’re growing more covertly racist, experts find - The Guardian
- Mar 2024, LLMs become more covertly racist with human intervention - MIT Technology Review
2023 and Earlier
- Oct 2023, How Can AI Affect LGBTQIA+ People In India? Three Indian-Origin Queer Researchers Explain - IndiaTimes
- Sep 2023, He hacked AI chatbots to find flaws and vulnerabilities. Now Northeastern’s Avijit Ghosh is writing a report on combating these problems - Northeastern Global
- Aug 2023, From Google To Nvidia, Tech Giants Have Hired Red Team Hackers To Break Their AI Models - Forbes
- Aug 2023, Radio Interview - AirTalk - LAIST/NPR
- Aug 2023, Radio Interview - As It Happens - CBC Canada
- Aug 2023, When Hackers Descended to Test A.I., They Found Flaws Aplenty - The New York Times
- Mar 2023, From accessibility efforts to ethical concerns, here are our AI takeaways from SXSW content creators should consider - Passionfruit
- Nov 2021, NYC aims to be first to rein in AI hiring tools - Associated Press
- Feb 2021, Auditors are testing hiring algorithms for bias, but there’s no easy fix - MIT Technology Review
- Jan 2021, New York City Proposes Regulating Algorithms Used in Hiring - Wired
- Jan 2021, Supporting Responsible Use of AI and Equitable Outcomes in Financial Services - The Federal Reserve
- Dec 2019, Facebook Ads Can Still Discriminate Against Women and Older Workers, Despite a Civil Rights Settlement - Propublica
- Dec 2019, Facebook Agreed Not to Let Its Ads Discriminate. But They Still Can. - Mother Jones