Madhulika is the Head of the AI Safety Program at Partnership on AI (PAI). PAI is a global non-profit partnership of leading industry, academic, and civil society organizations, advancing best practices in AI governance. Madhulika leads a team that develops best practices through participatory processes to provide actionable guidance for PAI's Partners, inform public policy, and advance public understanding. Her transnational expertise in emerging technologies spans global governance, strategic foresight, and policy research. Previously, she served as a public interest technology fellow at New America in Washington DC and Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. Trained as a lawyer, Madhulika holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where she studied as an Inlaks Foundation scholar.
At CSER, she collaborates with the AI: FAR team to explore geopolitical implications of proposals for regulating compute to mitigate existential risk – in particular, whether there is a tension to be addressed between equity and safety when determining how the majority world gets access to large compute.