I want to make the world more secure, transparent, and safe.
Currently
- I’m a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic.
- I support human rights investigations at scale via Atlos. My work is made possible by National Geographic, the Brown Institute at Stanford, and Microsoft.
- I maintain a number of open source projects, including Shynet and a17t.
Previously
I worked on election security at CISA/DHS, privacy engineering at Apple, trust and safety at the Stanford Internet Observatory, AI policy in collaboration with OpenAI and the Cornell Tech Policy Institute, and digital infrastructure with some newsrooms.
At Stanford, I taught CS 106S (Coding for Social Good) and I co-directed the Stanford Security Clinic. I’m an alum of the Recurse Center, I had an app (but we sold the business), and I worked on cyber policy for a 2020 presidential campaign.
Broadly
My projects, research, and commentary have appeared in several outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC News, TIME, Foreign Affairs, Brookings TechStream, Lawfare, the Nightly News with Lester Holt, and elsewhere. I’ve also spoken at a few conferences, including DEF CON, TSRC, and RightsCon.
For more information, check out my portfolio.
Contact
You can email me at [email protected]. I’m on GitHub and Twitter. Need help with one of my open source projects? Stop by my office hours.
Recent Writing
Aug ’23
AI image generators threaten child safety investigations
I believe that generative AI, developed and deployed thoughtfully, has the opportunity to profoundly reshape the world for the better.When your classmates threaten you with felony charges
A few weeks ago, I was part of a talk at DEF CON 31 called The Hackers, The Lawyers, and the Defense Fund.