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 the Acting Director of the MSc Program in Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and a Senior Research Affiliate at the Centre for Technomoral Futures. For many years, I was a Research Fellow in Digital Ethics and Governance at the Jain Family Institute.
Work in progress: Algorithmic neutrality.
A new kind of ethics course I co-developed: Experiential ethics.
My research is about the general relationships between values and technology (can algorithms be neutral? do artifacts embody values?) and the ethics of automated decision-making (when do algorithms descriminate by proxy? are algorithms 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.