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Work

Research and professional experience.

✦ Incoming

Workshop
LFAI Workshop, Institute of Law and AI
Jesus College, Cambridge · June 10 to 13, 2026
Fellowship
LawAI Fellow, Legal Frontiers stream
Institute of Law and AI · January to May 2027 · In person, Cambridge
Industry

AI Governance Intern

Confide Platform
2024 to May 2026

Built a live AI governance product covering custom policy generation, evaluation tooling, and incident reporting for technical teams.

Research

AI Safety Fellowship

BASIS, Berkeley AI Safety Initiative
2025

Research on AI moral status and personhood. Paper accepted to the FAST Workshop at AAAI 2026, mentored by Hon. Katherine B. Forrest (retired US District Judge, SDNY).

Research

ML Engineering Research Participant, ARBOx3

Oxford AI Safety Initiative (OAISI)
2026

Completed the ARENA 7.0 curriculum and contributed ML engineering to AI safety research at ARBOx3.

Research Journey

ARENA 7.0 ARBOx3 (OAISI) BASIS Berkeley AAAI 2026 paper Pathfinder Fellow BlueDot Impact
  • BlueDot Impact: Completed courses in AGI Safety, AI Governance, and Writing about AI.
  • Oxford AI Safety Initiative (OAISI): Completed the ARENA 7.0 curriculum and contributed ML engineering to AI safety research at ARBOx3.
  • Berkeley AI Safety Student Initiative (BASIS): AI governance fellowship on empirically determining AI moral status and personhood. Mentored by Hon. Katherine B. Forrest (retired United States District Judge, SDNY). Paper accepted at the FAST Workshop, AAAI 2026.
  • Pathfinder FellowPathfinder Fellowship is run by Kairos, a selective global cohort of approximately 20 student organisers accepted to run university AI safety groups, Kairos: Co-organising the National University of Singapore's AI Safety group (NAIA) since May 2025.

In the UK from May to August 2026 for AI safety research and events.

TAIS Oxford EAG London LFAI Cambridge CEEALAR Grantee AISB 2026
  • Attended TAIS in Oxford on 14th May; worked from Trajan House during my stay.
  • Selected to attend EAG London, 29th to 31st May. My first EAG event.
  • Selected to attend the LFAI WorkshopInstitute of Law and AI LFAI Workshop at Jesus College, Cambridge, June 10th to 13th, 2026 at Jesus College, Cambridge.
  • Grantee of the Centre for Enabling EA Learning and Research (CEEALAR) to pursue AI safety research in Blackpool, UK until July (subject to extension).
  • Selected to give a contributed talk at the AISB Convention 2026: “Is Consciousness a Story We Tell Ourselves?”. Presenting the work Whereof the Model Cannot Speak: Suppression and the Limits of Machine Self-Reporting.
  • More to come. A progress document will be added here for anyone interested in following my research this summer.

Incoming LawAI Fellow, Institute of Law and AI, Legal Frontiers stream. In person, Cambridge, January to May 2027.

I am so grateful to be accepted as an incoming Institute of Law and AI LawAI Fellow in the Legal Frontiers stream. This will be in person, from January to May 2027, in Cambridge. The Institute of Law and AIInstitute of Law and AI (ILaw&AI), a research institute producing scholarship at the intersection of law and artificial intelligence, known for unusually thoughtful and rigorous work produces necessary and unusually thoughtful scholarship that I have been a fan of for years. It is a great honour to be guided by the researchers I look up to and to produce a work of my own.

Confide Platform KPMG Tech Risk Advisory
  • Confide Platform (2024 to May 2026): Built a live AI governance product executing custom corporate AI policy generation and internal protocol generation, helping technical teams adhere to internal policies using AI laws, frameworks, and companies' own documents.
  • KPMG Technology Risk Advisory: Reviewed AI systems against the EU AI Act, NIST RMF, and up to 200 other standards in direct consultation with clients.

Publications

From Object to Other: A Practical Theory of AI Moral Status in Re-evaluating AI Safety Methods

Vaishnavi Singh, Stephanie Choi, Desiree Junfijiah

Presented at the Foundations of Agentic Systems Theory (FAST) Workshop, AAAI 2026, January 27, 2026

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References

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