About
AbhinavGaurav
Founder of Antara Innovations, a specialist AI advisory. Cyberpsychologist, author of Pixelated Souls and The Interrupted, and leader focused on the operations, governance, security and human consequences of intelligent systems.
The territory
Where technology meets human judgement.
Abhinav’s work sits at the intersection of AI, human behaviour and psychology. Rather than treating these as separate disciplines, he examines what happens when they collide inside real organisations.
The central question is not simply what an intelligent system can do. It is whether people understand what it is doing, know when to trust it, and remain accountable when intelligence becomes increasingly automated.
The perspective
How technology changes human behaviour.
AI is often discussed as a technology problem: models, data, infrastructure, security and deployment. Abhinav’s work looks at the other side of the equation.
How does technology change judgement?
How does repeated reliance on intelligent systems change behaviour?
What happens to trust, responsibility and decision-making when the machine becomes part of the cognitive loop?
The work
Ideas that become systems.
AI strategy & governance
Advisory work focused on helping organisations understand, govern, secure and scale AI without losing sight of the people responsible for using and supervising it.
The Awakened Intelligence
A weekly publication exploring how intelligent systems reshape judgement, leadership, behaviour and the organisations we build.
Pixelated Souls
An exploration of the relationship between technology, identity and human behaviour and what happens when the digital becomes part of how we understand ourselves. Also available on Google Books and in selected bookstores.
The Interrupted
Are We The Last True Humans? A book on why constant alerts leave the body on watch, how attention, compulsion, algorithms and grief keep it there, and AWARE, a five-step framework to come back. Paperback, hardcover and Kindle.
Four engagements, four challenges
Financial crime, credit decisioning, enterprise machine learning and real-time fraud. Led by Abhinav Gaurav.
Antara Wellness
A psychological and psychosomatic wellbeing technology built around the idea that people respond differently when they feel understood, rather than simply assessed.
Get in touch
Speaking, advisory, research or press.
For speaking invitations, advisory work, research collaborations, media enquiries or conversations around AI, governance and human behaviour, get in touch directly.