About

Hello! I’m Savva. Welcome to my website for writing about things that interest me. I spend time on humane technology, cybernetics, AI, and generally looking at 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 inside them navigate that gap?

My formal training is in cybersecurity and AI (BSc Applied Cyber Security @ USW, MSc Applied AI @ Warwick) and I’ve spent a lot of time working inside teams of all shapes and sizes helping develop organisational relationships to risk in technology. That work draws on systems thinking more than most people expect - you can’t secure what you don’t understand, and we can get into all sorts of interesting details on the difference between ‘declared design’ and the actual ‘boots-on-the-ground’ reality.

I now work as the Principal Consultant at Turtledove Cyber delivering penetration testing, fractional CISO, and IASME regulated services to some wonderful clients. We also build cyber SaaS products and do some custom dev work (this with the outstanding Jacob Alcock).

I’m building a charity with the excellent Ben Yarrow, who I work with at Marks out of Tenancy. We’re building a home for deep learning and civic technology projects that exist in service of human flourishing.

I’m aiming to pursue a PhD exploring humane technology and radical rethinking of compute. How can we build better frameworks for leveraging technology sustainably, when we know how dangerous, polarising, and unsustainable current paradigms for engagement are?

I’m doing my MSc Dissertation on developing an assessment rubric (and PoC QLoRA adapter used to fine-tune a model) for measuring safety and alignment in AI models. Specifically, I’m working on increasing the dimensionality of traditional AI safety and alignment tooling to include virtue ethics, and development theory.

Thanks for visiting my site – my email is my first name @ pistolas . co . uk. Do say hello!