Philosophical Disquisitions

Here's a new paper. This one was a bit of a labour of love. It is an analysis of what it means to be a techno-optimist and how one might...

One of the things I occasionally like to do is to re-read books that had an early influence on my thinking. It is an instructive exercise. S...

A few years ago, I developed a position I called 'ethical behaviourism' and applied it to debates about the moral status of artifici...

Image from Marco Verch, via Flickr The claim that AI systems are biased is common. Perhaps the classic example is the COMPAS algorithm used ...

One particularly important social institution is the police force, who are increasingly using technological tools to help efficiently and ef...

That's the title of a talk I delivered to the IEET/UMass project on the future of work. You can watch it above. I look at the history o...

I have a new paper coming out in the journal Philosophy and Technology . It's about responsibility gaps and why, on some occasions, they...