danspicytaco
Sydney · 2026

I build tools to reduce real world AI harms

I'm Dan, a software engineer at Canva working on AI safety and privacy. Outside work I focus on technology-facilitated abuse and AI safety: non-consensual intimate imagery, family-violence contexts, image provenance, and evals that make safeguards testable.

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AI can cause psychological and social harm to people and those around them. I build systems that make abuse harder and decisions safer.

That means practical tools for provenance and abuse prevention, as well as evals that make safeguards easier to inspect and improve.

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Adversarial safety evals

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