Hi, I'm Nell. I've just finished my MSc in Computing at Imperial. My thesis, AI-Driven Deception: Using Large Language Models For Scalable Fraud, explored an aspect of AI Safety that I think is somewhat neglected — petty, mundane crime that can be automated and made much more dangerous by AI progress. You can read the introduction here. I wrote a piece summarising my research and describing this threat for the Financial Times, which you can read here.
Alongside my MSc, I coauthored this year's State of AI Report. I'm really proud of it — it’s been shared and praised by leading voices in AI, including Eric Schmidt (former CEO of Google), Jan Beger (Head of AI Advocacy at GE Healthcare), and Marius Hobbhahn (CEO of Apollo Research).
I'm currently working as a Founding GTM Operator at Jack&Jill, trying to re-invent the recruitment industry. I think that people are bizarrely unintentional about their careers and find themselves falling into jobs they don't love - this helps change that.background
After my first-class Modern Languages BA at Oxford, I worked in the tech industry for ~4 years, including as employee no.3 at LocalGlobe-backed climate tech startup Supercritical and at Amadeus-backed AI company V7 Labs. This taught me a lot about scaling companies and the tech industry but made me hungry for more technical know-how. This led me to pursue an MSc in Computing at Imperial — a conversion course for non-CS grads that takes you from beginners to competent programmers in a year. My modules included C++, ML, Algorithms, Software Systems Engineering, and AI Ventures. I wrote my thesis on AI-driven fraud (see above) and got a Distinction overall, which I'm pretty happy with given that I was the only person in my cohort (and possibly in all of Imperial) without Maths A-level. My team won the AI Ventures pitch competition with our idea for an AI-enabled real estate agent and secured a YCombinator interview.
Outside of tech, I was also a trustee of North London music charity DaCapo for 4 years.
interests
Beyond work and researching AI, I love to read fiction, cook, play music, and play sports. I sing semi-professionally in a London-based vocal group, and am a big fan of Samara Joy, Nicola Lamb, and Psycle.