About

Hello! I’m Savva. Welcome to my website. I spend time on humane technology, cybernetics, AI safety, and systems thinking; how are systems designed, what’s the gap between what they do and what they’re supposed to do, and how do people design better ones?

My formal training is in cybersecurity and AI, and I’ve spent a lot of time working inside teams of all shapes and sizes helping develop organisational relationships to risk in digital systems, and as one might expect in the recent years, on enabling AI-native work, securely.

I’m the Founder and Principal Consultant at Turtledove Cyber, delivering CREST penetration testing, fractional CISO, AI consultancy, and IASME regulated services (Cyber Essentials etc) to some wonderful clients. We build NEST, the UK’s most accessible vulnerability management solution for small teams and charities.

I’m a founding Trustee and day-to-day Data Practitioner at Common.charity which was born in collab with the excellent Ben Yarrow, who I worked with at Marks out of Tenancy. We’re building a home for deep learning and civic technology projects that exist in practical service of human flourishing.

And now,

I’m aiming to pursue a PhD exploring humane technology and radical systems design. How can we build better frameworks for leveraging technology sustainably, when we know how dangerous, polarising, and unsustainable current paradigms and incentives are? How do we leverage tech as a machine to produce practical, immediate, sustainable mutual aid networks, with political will and hope as functional byproducts?

I’m finishing my current MSc Dissertation on developing and testing an AI safety benchmark for measuring ‘safety’ with a more holistic definition that currently in use. Specifically, I’m working on increasing the dimensionality of traditional AI safety and alignment tooling to include virtue ethics, and development theory. Single-turn safety benchmarks miss holistic harms that appear multi-turn, let’s measure that! Informed by UKCP registered child development professionals.

Thanks for visiting my site – my email is my first name @ pistolas . co . uk. I also have a contact form in the header. Do say hello!