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Thanks for dropping by! I’m Arul Murugan, currently a masters student at UC Berkeley.

The Jagged Global Economy: Frontier AI Unevenly Exposes National Economies

We estimate how labor markets in 141 countries are exposed to frontier AI, showing large cross-country variation, gender gaps, adoption correlations, and remittance-linked indirect exposure.

July 6, 2026 Â· Me

Interpreting and Steering LLM Agents for Social Simulations

We compare prompting, sparse autoencoders, and linear probes for interpreting and controlling LLM agent behavior in social science simulations. SAE-based steering outperforms prompting, offering fine-grained, predictable control over preferences and capabilities.

February 15, 2026 Â· Me

Simulating Strategic Interactions with AI Agents

This is the first ever paper that I have contributed to, we did this exactly an year back.

September 6, 2025 Â· Me