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Legally Lite
Legal education through state-specific challenges and mini-games. Runner-up at Legal Quants x Manus AI.
Ranjitha Rangaswamy
I work across law, AI, and messy human systems.
Former litigator, HCDE grad student. I’m building toward AI safety and AI ethics through research, writing, user conversations, and shipped experiments.
law
AI ethics
research
AI safety
AI ethics
legal systems
trust and safety
research ops
early teams
public-interest tech
AI safety
AI ethics
legal systems
01 · Profile
I am useful when the problem is still unclear, the stakes are high, and the answer has to survive real people.
5+ years as a licensed litigator in India.
Published research on generative AI, aviation mental health, and AI companions.
Builder track through UW, AI2, hackathons, and startup discovery.
talk to users
read the rule
test the claim
ship the smallest version
02 · Work
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Buerk incubator program
An experiment at being a founder: 10 weeks of customer discovery, product bets, legal-tech assumptions, and learning when to stop.
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Digital copilots for pilot mental health
Research on AI support in aviation mental health, where disclosure, regulation, stigma, and guardrails matter.
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Aviation policy matrix
Mapping how mental-health disclosure rules shape incentives for pilots across aviation regulatory systems.
03 · Research
AI safety and AI ethics are where I am building depth.
“This isn’t living the dream; I want out”: Probing Generative AI for Aviation Mental Health Support Through an Exploratory Design Experiment.
Exploring AI Companions Together: A Structured Family Co-Investigation of Character.AI.
04 · About / Elsewhere
A few things that make the work feel like mine.
Seattle now, Bengaluru before. I am used to translating between systems, accents, institutions, and expectations.
I spent years as a litigator, which made me sensitive to power, ambiguity, incentives, and what happens when rules meet real people.
I pay attention to the quiet parts of a system: who is afraid to speak, who has to document everything, who gets blamed, and where trust breaks.
I write to understand what I am learning. The topics usually orbit law, AI, mental health, institutions, and why people behave differently than systems expect.
05 · Contact