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A Bit About Me

My main areas of research are experimental ethics, philosophy of AI, philosophy of language, and epistemology. Plus, I have never found a methodological question I do not find fascinating. Recent research has explored the extent that interpersonal moral relationships and attitudes – such as trust and empathy – apply to AI. My most recent paper explores ways to empirically measure the distinct epistemic pathways of showing vs telling in LLM-generated moral advice, pathways that have been conflated in armchair philosophy, experimental philosophy, and psychology.

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Previously I was a postdoc at the University of Kent's Department of Psychology, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, as part of the Multidimensional Trust in Moral Machines team. There I researched the social epistemology of AI and how AI fits into our existing concept of trust.

Before that, I was an SNF postdoc at the University of Zürich on the project "Dual-Character Concepts: Bridging the Descriptive and the Normative", and my PhD was on the philosophy of philosophy at the University of St Andrews.

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