Yasmeena Ramani Khan is an IRiSS Predoctoral Scholar at Stanford University’s AI Governance Lab and an affiliate of Stanford HAI. Her research examines how democratic societies can shape AI policy to uphold their political, social, and economic futures. She focuses on Silicon Valley accelerationism and its impact on the race for AGI, as part of a broader project on the origins of techno-ideologies and their relationship to modern political movements.
She earned an MSc with Distinction in the Social Science of the Internet from the University of Oxford’s Balliol College as a Clarendon Scholar. She also holds a BS with Honors and Distinction in Symbolic Systems (Human-Centered AI), with a minor in Poetry, from Stanford University.