Optimistic about the future, prudent about risks.
I am a doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, funded by the UKRI. Before moving into AI research, I read philosophy and psychology, with a focus on moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, and behavioural neuroscience and cognition.
Before my PhD, I was an investment strategist with Invesco's Global Market Strategy office, producing research for investment opportunities in emerging technologies and macroeconomic trends.
My research is inspired by moral philosophy, cognitive science, and temporal dynamics. I am interested in how philosophy can inform the way we engineer, evaluate, and govern emerging technologies, especially intelligent systems.
How should we act when neither facts nor values are fixed?
My thesis develops a computational account of virtue and practical wisdom in response to what I call the double uncertainty problem: how should agents act and plan for the future when they are unsure both about what is true and about what is good? In a world as destabilised and rapidly changing as ours, this is a particularly pressing question.
Visit Thesis SiteTwo manuscripts identifying (i) developing a new normative framework for governance in high stakes contexts and (ii) proposing policy responses.
A preprint examining barriers to the ethical governance of artificial intelligence in defence.
View PreprintExploring the role of generative AI in cognitive warfare and its impacts on society's epistemic resilience.
An in-progress benchmark for evaluating whether chain-of-thought traces reflect genuine causal reasoning rather than post hoc rationalisation.
Pope Leo XIV has been returning to a single, insistent theme recently: our technological and economic lives are not morally neutral. They are places of vocation and discernment. I’ve been weighing this for a while....
ReadThe “Singularity” refers to a tipping point in human affairs; a stretch of time when technology changes so quickly, and with such strange side-effects, that our usual ways of predicting and steering the future stop...
ReadWithin this framework, a romantic relationship is rightly understood as a place of delight. Beloveds may receive one another with enthusiasm and sincerity, and romantic and erotic desire may deepen without shame. Sex,...
ReadSonnets 29 and 66 are favourites of mine. I keep running into them, which sometimes makes me wonder whether I like them because they’re genuinely good or because I’ve seen them so often. Familiarity isn’t merit, but it...
ReadToday the British Government announced it will extend bereavement leave to parents who experience miscarriage before 24 weeks — the same point at which the law recognises a pregnancy loss as a stillbirth. This is...
ReadPARIS, once the epicentre of genuine revolutionary fervour, now plays host to technocratic pageantry. The world descended on the Grand Palais for the AI Action Summit. Little action was taken. ## Laodicea A summit is a...
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