The future ain’t what it used to be.
Yogi Berra

Bio

I am currently a doctoral candidate at Bielefeld University, funded by the research training group 2073 “Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research”, a research associate at the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR), and an external collaborator at the Data and Computational Ethics research group at Stellenbosch University.

I am a philosopher of technology. I believe that the development of AI, as a nascent and disruptive technology, will fundamentally change our moral landscape. It is therefore essential that we have a robust meta-ethical grounding in our approach to the ethics of AI. Without rigorous conceptual apparatus we will be lost in our ethical analysis of these emergent and ubiquitous artificial systems.

This website serves as a digital account of my research as I attempt to navigate what it means to sometimes take things seriously.

For more detailed information on the work I am doing, see the links below:

ResearchGate for regular updates on my work
GRK website for information on my research group
Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) where I am a research associate
Ethical Intelligence where I am an expert consultant
3 Quarks Daily where I am a regular contributor
Strava where you can monitor my location

In my free time I enjoy carbohydrates, evidence-based research, Russian literature, and running up and around various naturally occurring objects.

Research Interests

AOS: Ethics of AI, moral responsibility, machine ethics, philosophy of technology

AOC: Free will, philosophy of mind

CV

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Since 04/2020
Doctoral Candidate at the DFG Research Training Group 2073 Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research, Bielefeld University

2018 – 2019
Master of Arts (Philosophy), Stellenbosch University, South Africa

2017 – 2019
Teaching Assistant (philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, epistemology, engineering ethics), Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

2017
Bachelor of Arts Honours. Philosophy, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

2013 – 2016
Bachelor of Arts. Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Teaching

Teaching Assistant Roles:

2019: Critical Social Theory and Ideology Critique / Philosophy 344 (Stellenbosch University)
2018+2019: Philosophy of Science and Epistemology / Philosophy 214 (Stellenbosch University)
2018+2019: History of Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Mind / Philosophy 354 (Stellenbosch University)
2018: Engineering and Ethics 314 and 414 (Stellenbosch University)
2018: Science, Ethics and Aesthetics in a Philosophical Perspective (for international students), Summer School Philosophy Elective (Stellenbosch University)

Service to the Profession

2021 – Present: Book reviews editor for the Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies

2021 – Present: Reviewer for AI & Society

2019: Chairperson, Socratic Society Stellenbosch

2018: Vice-Chairperson, Socratic Society Stellenbosch