Nabeel Qureshi
Also known as Nabeel S. Qureshi
Entrepreneur, writer and researcher; formerly at Palantir, Mercatus Visiting Scholar in AI.
- Nabeel Qureshi is an entrepreneur, writer and researcher working on a startup in stealth.
- At Palantir he led public health projects with US federal agencies, including work during the COVID-19 response.
- Earlier he was a founding employee of GoCardless.
- He writes essays on art, reading, AI and how to understand things.
Why it matters
- For readers interested in Palantir from the inside, AI and art: he writes essays on all three and has discussed them on Lenny's Podcast and Dialectic.
- Now
- Working on a startup in stealth1
- At Palantir
- Enterprise Lead on public health projects with US federal agencies: machine learning in the biosciences, the COVID-19 response, applied AI in drug discovery1
- Medical dataset
- Worked with NIH, academia and clinical centers to create the N3C dataset for researchers1
- Mercatus Center
- Visiting Scholar in AI2
- Emergent Ventures
- Awardee, 27th cohort (2023), to support his next project3
- GoCardless
- Founding employee and Vice President of Business Development (Y Combinator S11)1
- Education
- Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford1
- Based in
- New York City; grew up in England1
Writing to start with
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Reflections on Palantir (opens nabeelqu.co)1
What it was like working at Palantir, from the early days through joining the S&P 500.
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How To Understand Things (opens nabeelqu.co)1
Intelligence as much about honesty, integrity and bravery as raw intellect.
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Moral AI (WIRED) (opens wired.com)1
The Waluigi Effect and the case for AI that internalizes values instead of following rules.
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Art against the machine (New Statesman) (opens newstatesman.com)1
Weekend essay on an allegedly AI-written short story winning a prize.
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Emergent Ventures Winners (opens evwinners.org)1
Semantic search over every Emergent Ventures grantee; data and code on GitHub.
Interviews
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Dialectic #50, with Tyler Cowen (opens dialectic.fm)1
Sacred commitments, AI acceleration, art, mentorship and talent.
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Lenny's Podcast (opens lennysnewsletter.com)1
Palantir, forward-deployed engineers, enterprise data and AI strategy.
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Dialectic #13 (opens dialectic.fm)1
Care vs. slop, original seeing, spaced repetition, defamiliarization in art.
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