Outreach

Invited Speaking Engagements

• Apr 2025, Panel: “Is U.S. Policy Ready for Agentic AI?” at the Center for Data Innovation

• Mar 2025, Panel on Open Source AI Regulation at the Summit on State AI Legislation (SSAIL) at the Digital Ethics Center, Yale University

• Mar 2025, NLP & Generative AI Panel at the HBS Tech Conference

• Feb 2025, Coordinated Disclosure for AI: Beyond Security Vulnerabilities at The MIT Sloan AI Conference

• Oct 2024, Coordinated Disclosure for AI: Beyond Security Vulnerabilities at The Future of Third-Party AI Evaluation Workshop

• Oct 2024, Bridging the Gap: Real-World AI Biases and Responsible Governance Frameworks at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur

• Sep 2024, ERASED BY AI: Personal Experiences of the Psychological Impact of AI Bias at the Arthur AI Fest

• Jul 2024, Teaching Responsible AI: Building with open source and Hugging Face 🤗 at the Northeastern University Summer Training Program on Responsible Computing Education

• Jul 2024, Coordinated Disclosure for AI: Beyond Security Vulnerabilities at the EQUAL lab at MILA

• Feb 2024, Technology Impact on Cybersecurity at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted by Prof. Jack Weinstein, Lieutenant General, USAF

• Jan 2024, AI Vulnerability Reporting Event in the US Congress at Hackers on the Hill

• Oct 2023, Dual Governance: The intersection of centralized regulation and crowdsourced safety mechanisms for Generative AI at NSERC CREATE - Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence

• Aug 2023, “Queer Bias Bounty: Considerations for community audits and lessons learnt” at the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, UK

• Apr 2023, “Can There be AI Art Without an Artist?” at South by SouthWest (SXSW), Austin, TX, USA

• Feb 2023, “On the evolving tension between centralized regulation and decentralized development of Text-to-Image Models” at AIDBEI at AAAI 2023

• Dec 2022, “Proxies for bias monitoring: Ethics workshop” at the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, UK

• Nov 2022, “Subverting Fair Image Search with Generative Adversarial Perturbations” as a part of the ‘Celebrating Young Researchers’ event, Trustworthy ML Initiative

Media Coverage and Op-Eds

• Mar 2025, Why handing over total control to AI agents would be a huge mistake - MIT Tech Review Op-Ed

• Mar 2025, Hugging Face submits open-source blueprint, challenging Big Tech in White House AI policy fight - VentureBeat

• Mar 2025, Researchers Propose a Better Way to Report Dangerous AI Flaws - Wired

• Feb 2025, Two founders built a jobs board for Al agents. Humans need not apply — but their skills are still required. - Business Insider

• Feb 2025, Why truly open-source AI remains out of reach - TechCircle India

• Jan 2025, What does OpenAI get from Stargate? A $500 billion chance to build a whole new moat. - Business Insider

• Jan 2025, OpenAI’s Stargate may be tech’s biggest gamble ever, but here’s what’s really at stake - Fortune

• Jan 2025, एआई निजी जिंदगी से लेकर बिजनेस तक को बदल देगा (AI will transform everything from daily life to businesses) - Dainik Bhaskar Column

• Oct 2024, These Smart Glasses Will Read Your Emotions and Watch What You Eat - Wired

• Aug 2024, This Wearable AI Notetaker Will Transcribe Your Meetings — and Someday, Your Entire Life - Wired

• Aug 2024, En Californie, la loi de protection contre l’IA amendée pour apaiser la Silicon Valley (In California, AI protection law amended to appease Silicon Valley) - Les Echos

• Aug 2024, We finally have a definition for open-source AI - MIT Technology Review

• Aug 2024, World’s biggest hacker fest spotlights AI’s soaring importance in the high-stakes cybersecurity war—and its vulnerability - Fortune Magazine

• Jul 2024, पूर्वाग्रहों से भरी एआई भारत के लिए चुनौती-अवसर दोनों (AI full of prejudices both a challenge and an opportunity for India) - Dainik Bhaskar Column

• May 2024, Common image search results are overwhelmingly white, a new study finds - Fast Company

• Mar 2024, As AI tools get smarter, they’re growing more covertly racist, experts find - The Guardian

• Mar 2024, LLMs become more covertly racist with human intervention - MIT Technology Review

• Oct 2023, How Can AI Affect LGBTQIA+ People In India? Three Indian-Origin Queer Researchers Explain - IndiaTimes

• Sep 2023, He hacked AI chatbots to find flaws and vulnerabilities. Now Northeastern’s Avijit Ghosh is writing a report on combating these problems - Northeastern Global

• Aug 2023, From Google To Nvidia, Tech Giants Have Hired Red Team Hackers To Break Their AI Models - Forbes

• Aug 2023, Radio Interview - AirTalk - LAIST/NPR

• Aug 2023, Radio Interview - As It Happens - CBC Canada

• Aug 2023, When Hackers Descended to Test A.I., They Found Flaws Aplenty - The New York Times

• Mar 2023, From accessibility efforts to ethical concerns, here are our AI takeaways from SXSW content creators should consider - Passionfruit

• Nov 2021, NYC aims to be first to rein in AI hiring tools - Associated Press

• Feb 2021, Auditors are testing hiring algorithms for bias, but there’s no easy fix - MIT Technology Review

• Jan 2021, New York City Proposes Regulating Algorithms Used in Hiring - Wired

• Jan 2021, Supporting Responsible Use of AI and Equitable Outcomes in Financial Services - The Federal Reserve

• Dec 2019, Facebook Ads Can Still Discriminate Against Women and Older Workers, Despite a Civil Rights Settlement - Propublica

• Dec 2019, Facebook Agreed Not to Let Its Ads Discriminate. But They Still Can. - Mother Jones

Leadership

• 2025 - ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency - Registration Chair
• 2024 - Evaluating Evaluations: Examining Best Practices for Measuring Broader Impacts of Generative AI - NeurIPS 2024 Workshop - Lead Organizer
• 2023 - SIGIR DEI lunch with speaker panel on disability in computing - Organizer
• 2023 - FAccT CRAFT Workshop on an India-first Responsible AI research agenda - Organizer
• 2022 - FAccT CRAFT Workshop on Humanitarian AI for the Global South - Organizer
• 2022 - FAccT CRAFT Workshop on Identifying Queer Harms as a bias bounty with Queer in AI - Organizer
• 2021 - SIGIR Queer in AI social with speaker panel on queer stereotypes in web search - Organizer
• 2017 - Kharagpur Winter Of Code - Founder
• 2016 - Kharagpur Open Source Society - Founder