I'm a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Philosophy of Technology at the University of Edinburgh. I used to hold the same position at Oxford, and did my PhD at MIT. I’m also Senior Research Affiliate at the Centre for Technomoral Futures and was for many years was a Senior Research Fellow in Digital Ethics and Governance at the Jain Family Institute.
Work in progress: Algorithmic neutrality.
A syllabus for a new kind of ethics course: Experiential ethics.
A simulator for understanding and addressing algorithmic bias.
I work on normative questions in the philosophy of technology. My primary projects concern the general relationships between values and technology (what is it for an algorithm to be neutral? or for an artifact to embody values?) and the ethics of automated decision-making (what is it for an algorithm to descriminate by proxy? are algorithms objectionally noisy decision-makers?). I also write about the nature of desire and how we communicate about it.
For three years, I was a director of PIKSI Boston, a summer program for undergraduates from underrepresented groups.