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AI control that labs can say yes to

BlueDot Impact · Technical AI Safety Project

AI labs can have a trusted model watch their most capable one and step in when something looks off. Few do it well, and cost is why: at frontier scale, even 1% overhead runs into billions.

We're running the first like-for-like test of AI control methods: the same attackers and the same models for every method, scored on safety, usefulness and dollars. The result is a map of the best protection money can buy. Next, we take on the open problem of what to do once a model gets caught.

Explaining AI to people who don't work in it

The Pivot's Archive · Substack

Most people will live with AI's consequences without ever reading a research paper. I write for them: no hype, no doom, just enough to form their own view.

Every essay also gets a hand-built, scroll-through version in cut paper.

Pivotr Studio

My web studio for small businesses

Building software keeps getting cheaper, so a local business shouldn't need an agency budget to get a good website.

Clean, fast websites with no ongoing fees, and one free build every month for a non-profit.

Composure

A calmer way through a crowded week

Some days there's too much in my head. Task apps let you dump it all, then leave you staring at one long, flat list.

Composure adds a method between the dump and the doing: empty your head, sort everything on an Eisenhower matrix, lock what matters into the week, then work through today in timed focus sessions.

Draw Greenr

Garden and landscape planner

I couldn't find a free garden planner that let me use my own plants and artwork, so I built one.

Draw beds, paths and lawns to scale, drop in plants and furniture, or upload your own images. It stays smooth with a thousand objects on the page.

Zara LM: sovereign AI for government

AI Engineer · Phoenix ICT Solutions

Secure AI for Australian Government teams, running on government-controlled infrastructure where no prompt or document leaves the environment. It answers with citations from trusted sources and drafts briefings and analysis for a human to sign off.

• Built from the ground up to beta testing in under a year

Voice AI for women artisans in rural India

Engineering for Change Fellow · Resham Sutra

Resham Sutra's marketplace connects rural women textile producers with buyers, but a text-heavy app shuts out anyone who struggles to read it.

I built a lightweight voice assistant that runs on low-end phones, in Hindi and Marathi, so they can run their business by speaking.

AI Change Detection Platform

Mechatronics Engineer · Geodrones Australia

Fused camera and LiDAR on the drone itself to detect changes across a site in near real time. I also built secure in-flight task swapping and the battery management firmware.

• Demoed to industry leaders at October Sky 2024

Navigation that holds up when GPS lags

Honours research · ANU

Implemented a new observer for drone state estimation when GPS readings arrive late: the first with almost-global stability guarantees.

• Published in the European Journal of Control
• Presented at the ArduPilot Developer Conference 2023

Estimated vs true flight path, from the paper