Salman Chaudry

At CASBS, Salman Chaudhry turns to a question he has been carrying through years of frontline AI work: how do we get through an AI transition without breaking the social arrangements that allow most people to earn a living and build a life? For two centuries, cognitive friction is what made entire professions viable: the years required to acquire a specialty, the difficulty of moving and synthesizing information, the slow work of expert judgment. AI is collapsing that friction at speed. Drawing on his experience at the technical core of large-scale AI work, he also hopes to help other fellows engage with AI not as a tool to be adopted but as a force reshaping the conditions of knowledge work itself.

Chaudhry is an AI practitioner whose work spans the full arc of how artificial intelligence enters the world: from research and engineering at the frontier of model architectures and training recipes, to the friction of deploying these systems inside large organizations, to the question of what they will mean for the people whose work and livelihoods they remake. He is vice president of AI Engineering at a major financial institution and has spent close to two decades building production AI and data systems across financial services, e-commerce, healthcare, travel, and telematics.

Chaudhry holds an MSc in Intelligent Systems (AI) and a BEng in Computer Systems from King's College London. Chaudhry is a practitioner fellow at CASBS.