Aishwarya Saxena
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Updated 03/22/26Dr. Aishwarya Saxena is a legal researcher and policy professional based in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently serving as Director of Legal Research at the Vista Institute for AI Policy, a fiscally sponsored project of Rethink Priorities. She holds a doctorate from UC Berkeley School of Law, where she was a Robbins Fellow for International and Comparative Legal Research, and an LLM with dual specialization in Energy and Clean Technology Law and Environmental Law from Berkeley Law; she also holds a diploma in International Nuclear Law from the University of Montpellier, France, and undergraduate degrees in Business Administration and Law from SNDT University, Mumbai. Her academic work focused on civil liability for nuclear damage, nuclear liability insurance, and the establishment of global nuclear liability regimes, expertise she has applied to the question of AI liability insurance as a lever for AI safety. She received a Long-Term Future Fund grant in 2024 to conduct a six-month research project on AI liability insurance as an additional mechanism for improving AI safety outcomes. Previously she was an Applied Researcher (Climate) at Founders Pledge, where she built frameworks for evaluating interventions to avoid carbon lock-in in emerging economies.
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