Yasmeena (Yasi) Khan

I am currently an AI Governance Scholar at Stanford University with Professor Rob Reich, studying how democratic societies can shape AI policy that upholds our political, social, and economic futures. My research focuses on accelerationism in Silicon Valley and its impact on the race for AGI, as part of a broader project investigating the origins of techno-ideologies and their relationship to modern political movements. I attended the University of Oxford (Balliol College) on a Clarendon Scholarship, earning a MSc with Distinction in Social Science of the Internet. I also hold a B.S. with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems (Human-Centered AI), with a minor in Poetry.

I've worked as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, focusing on responsible artificial intelligence and helping establish the AI Trust practice, and in Product & Analytics at Interaction (now Cognition), a seed-stage consumer AI startup. I have also been a sabermetrics baseball journalist with Vox Media for the San Francisco Giants. More about me here.