Hi, I'm Sofi

About

I'm a nomadic, polymath software engineer, building experimental AI projects and writing about existential hope.

My current focus is on reducing societal risk from AI through empowering metacognition, collective intelligence, and digital democracy.

I've worked as a full-stack engineer in web, mobile, and game projects since 2017. See my LinkedIn for full resume, and GitHub for portfolio.

Outside work, I spend my time exploring communities, embodiment, spirituality, and improvisation in art and life.

Current focus areas

AI-empowered metacognition and collective intelligence

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Building experimental LLM (Large Language Model) interfaces with a 2-person team with research funding from sources focusing on AI risk. Right now we're focusing on AI-empowerd deliberation.

Existential hope

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What kind of a world should we be building? What kinds of futures are possible? As AI capabilities improve, how can we ensure a pluralistic, flourishing society for all?

Sample of past projects

Pantheon: AI-facilitated metacognition

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Pantheon is an experimental AI-facilitated metacognition tool and research prototype exploring new ways to use LLMs to improve human thinking. Intricate, customizable AI characters and a novel, tree-like UI structure empower the user to think and work in new ways.

Cities of Orare: A vision of the future

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Cities of Orare paints the picture of a positive future in 2045, where AI-powered prediction markets and digital democracy amplify collective intelligence, enhancing liberal democracy, economic distribution, and policy-making. Cities of Orare won the Foresight Institue Worldbuilding Course of 2024.

Harmony: Multi-user epistemic chatbot

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Harmony is a chatbot facilitating users in the double crux technique, enabling smoother argument resolution. It was created as part of the Epistea fellowship program of 2023.