Yatharth Agarwal

About

Till 2020, I was roundly on the prestiguous-tech-job-engineering ladder. Stanford degrees, research at MIT, lots of consulting for AI startups. I had agency — but a narrow, instrumental agency, that more often than not, got used by institutions, and not by me. Since then, I've studied with various wisdom cultures, discovered bountiful happiness, encountered deep grief. I became a person to myself. Once, I had hoped to leave my body; today, I adore every moment of it. These days, I do both: screen time addiction research, scale startups, and train AI; but I also work with forests, preschoolers, and living and dead bodies. I've written extensively about relational healing, and breaking out of the STEM-only mindset. I'm working on a decade-long passion at Softmax as an AI alignment researcher. If you're interested in the world of AI safety, or want to talk about your experience, send me a message.

Experience

Education