[1] Revanur was born and raised in San Jose, California, where she attended Evergreen Valley High School and was a delegate to the United States Senate Youth Program.
[5][6] In the spring of 2023, Revanur led a coalition of 10 youth-led organizations to send a joint letter to congressional leaders and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy calling for the inclusion of young people on AI oversight and advisory boards.
Later that year, Revanur was invited to meet with Vice President Harris as the youngest participant on a roundtable of civil society leaders convened to discuss threats posed by AI.
The platform includes roughly 20 recommendations for world leaders to address challenges like political deepfakes, algorithmic bias, autonomous weapons, and misuse risks from advanced AI models.
[11][12][13] The set of policy recommendations is endorsed by figures like Yoshua Bengio, Gary Marcus, Stuart Russell, Mary Robinson, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
[14][15] She describes being alarmed by the challenge of algorithmic bias after reading a 2016 ProPublica investigation, inspiring her decision to oppose Proposition 25: "That was a very rude awakening for me in which I realized technology is not this absolutely objective, neutral thing as it's reported to be.