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11 Facts About Sneha Revanur

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Sneha Revanur was born on 2004 and is an American activist.

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Sneha Revanur is the founder and president of Encode, a youth organization advocating for the global regulation of artificial intelligence.

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Sneha Revanur is a student at Stanford University and hopes to attend law school after graduation.

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Sneha Revanur attended Williams College, where she studied political economy, before transferring to Stanford.

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Sneha Revanur has stated that the project was sparked by concerns around the impact of generative AI on society following the release of GPT-4.

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Later that year, Sneha Revanur was invited to meet with Vice President Harris as the youngest participant on a roundtable of civil society leaders convened to discuss threats posed by AI.

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Sneha Revanur described this as "a pretty significant turning point" in "increasing legitimization of youth voices in the space".

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Sneha Revanur founded Encode, initially known as Encode Justice, in July 2020, at age fifteen, after coming across California Proposition 25, a ballot measure that would have replaced the use of cash bail statewide with pretrial risk assessment algorithms.

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Sneha Revanur has expressed growing concern over the possibility of larger-scale "catastrophic" harms from AI.

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In 2023, Sneha Revanur was the youngest individual named to TIME's inaugural list of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence.

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In December 2024, Sneha Revanur was included on the BBC's 100 Women list.