Priyanka Bharadwaj

Karma: 58

I teach courses on relationships and human flourishing at IIT Madras, with a background in product leadership at Amazon and India’s largest logistics tech firm. I’ve also run a decade-long matchmaking and relationship coaching practice. I’m exploring how relational thinking, trust, repair, memory, can inform the way we design and align AI systems.

Research Without Permission

Priyanka BharadwajJun 10, 2025, 7:33 AM

27 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Cognitive Exhaustion and Engineered Trust: Lessons from My Gym

Priyanka BharadwajMay 29, 2025, 1:21 AM

14 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Can you care without feeling?

Priyanka BharadwajMay 20, 2025, 8:12 AM

13 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Relational Alignment: Trust, Repair, and the Emotional Work of AI

Priyanka BharadwajMay 8, 2025, 2:44 AM

3 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Intuition in AI

Priyanka BharadwajApr 22, 2025, 3:15 PM

−2 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

AI, Alignment & the Art of Relationship Design

Priyanka BharadwajApr 19, 2025, 12:47 AM

6 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

The Illusion of Transparency as a Trust-Building Mechanism

Priyanka BharadwajMar 19, 2025, 5:09 PM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

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Priyanka Bharadwaj

Re­search Without Permission

Cog­ni­tive Ex­haus­tion and Eng­ineered Trust: Les­sons from My Gym

Can you care with­out feel­ing?

Re­la­tional Align­ment: Trust, Re­pair, and the Emo­tional Work of AI

In­tu­ition in AI

AI, Align­ment & the Art of Re­la­tion­ship Design

The Illu­sion of Trans­parency as a Trust-Build­ing Mechanism