I've written broadly, in different styles, and on a variety of topics. Through my writing, I attempt to explain complex ideas to public audiences and challenge the status quo. On this page, I've collected a list of my published and unpublished material. You can find some of my more academic work here too.
Public writing
- What can moral philosophy teach us about autonomous vehicles? Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
- Beware of biased vaccine distribution algorithms. Here's how to remedy them. The Next Web.
- Featured in The Download, a newsletter by the MIT Tech Review.
- Here’s how to Build Trust in Algorithms. The interdisciplinary proposal of explaining their decisions has galvanized philosophers, technologists, and policymakers alike. Stanford Rewired Magazine.
- Debating Machines: How intelligent are they? OZY.
- The case for self-driving cars, The Amherst Student.
- What is the nature of your intelligence? The Amherst Student.
Technology Policy
- Disinformation and the "Deepfake," The Journal of the James Madison Institute, Fall 2019.
- Driverless cars could transform our roads, The Benchmark.
- Should we fear facial recognition? The Benchmark (co-authored with Christopher Koopman).
- What is algorithmic transparency and why do we need it? PolicyInterns.
Academic philosophy
- True Superintelligence is Far Away: An Assessment of the Technological Singularity and Routes Leading to it
- My senior honors thesis was on the possibility of a machine more intelligent than humans. I argued that a superintelligence is conceivable but unlikely because humans simply wouldn't understand enough to create it.
- Are Racial Preferences in Dating Morally Defensible? Episteme, Spring 2019.
- I argue that racial preferences in dating are not morally defensible because they deny people of other races a "fair chance" to be a potential partner. This piece was published in an undergraduate journal and later presented at a conference – but it has gained significant traction among popular audiences too with over 45,000 downloads today.
- I argue that racial preferences in dating are not morally defensible because they deny people of other races a "fair chance" to be a potential partner. This piece was published in an undergraduate journal and later presented at a conference – but it has gained significant traction among popular audiences too with over 45,000 downloads today.
Medium
I occasionally self-publish pieces on Medium. These are more oriented toward my personal experiences.
- My parents had an arranged marriage. But Indian Matchmaking doesn’t recount stories like theirs.
- But where are you really from? Dialogues on Race in France.
- Jesus died for our Peaches. Every blunder in French is either blasphemous or sexually inappropriate.
- Never say "no" to fromage. My first experiences of French culture.
- From Amherst, with Mixed Feelings.
Book Reviews
I have begun writing short reviews for every book I read beginning late-2020. Inevitably, I don't read as much as I would like to, but I do try to read deeply.
- The Plague (by Albert Camus)
- Islam in Pakistan (by Muhammad Qasim Zaman)
- Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness (by Peter Godfrey-Smith)
- Moonwalking with Einstein (by Joshua Foer)
- Hacking Darwin (by Jamie Metzl)
- Zero to One (by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters)
- The Lean Startup (by Eric Ries)
- The Trial (by Franz Kafka)
- The Singularity is Near (by Ray Kurzweil)
- The Technological Singularity (by Murray Shanahan)
- Origin (by Dan Brown)
- The Fall (by Albert Camus)
- The Nine Lives of Pakistan (by Declan Walsh)
- Weapons of Math Destruction (by Cathy O' Neil)
- Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI (ed. John Brockman)
- The Age of Spiritual Machines (by Ray Kurzweil)
- The Black Swan (by Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- No Mud No Lotus (by Thich Nhat Hanh)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (by Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- The Brothers Karamazov (by Fyodor Dostoevsky)
- Love in the Time of Cholera (by GGM)
- What is Islam? (by Shahab Ahmed)
- Man's Search for Meaning (by Viktor Frankl)
- Educated (by Tara Westover)
- Ethics for the Real World: 82 Essays (by Peter Singer)
- Blockchain: Harvard Business Review collection of essays
- Hillbilly Elegy (by J.D. Vance)