Maanya Singh

Maanya is a sophomore studying International Relations and Data Science from Dallas, Texas and Bangalore, India. She is interested in exploring how emerging technologies can both expand opportunity and reinforce harm across borders.

Her academic work on global AI governance and state–industry power dynamics was published and presented at the 2025 ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society as a first author. She helped draft a joint Council of Europe–United Nations report on how immersive and XR technologies may affect freedom of expression as a research assistant to Brittan Heller. She is currently a Student Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a fellow with the Cambridge AI Safety Hub, where her work spans AI adoption’s impacts on women in low- and middle-income countries and the systemic risks posed by increasingly capable AI systems.

At Stanford, Maanya co-leads the AI Alignment policy reading group and serves as an undergraduate editor for the Stanford Law School Technology Law Review

Outside of class, you can find Maanya enjoying late-night swims at Farillaga and fueling her growing caffeine addiction by exploring local coffee shops with friends!