Parv Mahajan

Hi! I work at METR on organizational strategy and growth to mitigate catastrophic risks from advanced AI. I just finished up my time as an Astra Fellow at Constellation in Berkeley working under Alexandra Bates. In my free time, I work with MCNAIR on varied research, and am also currently on leave from my undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Georgia Tech.

A lot of my work has been with various organizations on their confusing-and-illegible special projects. This means everything from designing tabletop exercises to be played by frontier lab employees to setting up a conference on AI control. I also do some technical research; I recently published a preliminary safety evaluation for Kimi K2.5 and am helping to design better bio uplift studies.

I'm extremely interested in strategy and fieldbuilding to address catastrophic risks from AI, especially under short timelines. Some of my previous work involves studying LLM use in wargaming and benchmarking non-engineering AI R&D automation. I also authored a Georgia Tech RFI response to the National AI R&D Action Plan.

Before this, I worked at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, a DoD-affiliated applied research lab, where I focused on extremely novel cyberbiosecurity threats and evaluating frontier models for CBRN risks. I also served as the Collaborative Initiatives Lead at the AI Safety Initiative at Georgia Tech, a community of technical and policy researchers focused on mitigating catastrophic risks from AI. I'm based in Berkeley, and write occasionally on my blog and LessWrong. Always happy to talk to folks - have a very low bar for reaching out!