David Bravo

About me

I’m motivated by the question of how we can improve lives and reduce suffering, especially when the impact of current technologies can be so vast and spans across generations. That’s why I’m now focused on what I believe to be one of the most important problems of our time: ensuring that the AIs we build and deploy are safe, aligned, and beneficial for all.

We’re playing God in bringing something more capable than ourselves into existence. Yet our own values are too subtle and complex, and whether we can succeed in capturing them in the next advanced AIs may determine whether we flourish or fall to our own creations.

For this reason, I’m currently upskilling to contribute to AI safety research. I’m doing the ARENA curriculum to expand my ML engineering skills for technical research. Through independent projects, I’m refining my research taste and my ability to generate and test novel ideas. And through these writings, I’m forming my own inside views and clarifying my perspective on the AI problem.

In July 2025, I completed my Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering at IQS — Universitat Ramon Llull. The degree gave me a broad technical foundation and the ability to understand how systems are built.

And although as an engineer I’m inclined to optimise form, I’m also drawn to the formless: spirituality, philosophy of mind, ethics, consciousness.

If anything I write resonates, or if you see a way we could collaborate or exchange ideas, feel free to connect.