New job reveal! Super excited!!!

View of my last ferry ride home from @cornelltech.bsky.social! Had a wonderful time during my postdoc with the Digital Life Initiative, and excited for the next stage of my career!

Hi Bluesky! 👋 We’re the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab, based at the Uehiro Oxford Institute. We use experimental philosophy and moral psychology methods to study morality, with the aim of contributing to normative and philosophical debates in ethics. Follow us to keep up with our work!

Moral Agents with Jen Semler - Machine Ethics Podcast This month we chatted in-person with Jen Semler. We chatted about what is AI? Philosophers and engineer collboartions, businesses working with ethicists, machine ethics and AMAs, what makes a moral ag...

In November, I had a great time talking with Ben Byford about artificial moral agency for the Machine Ethics Podcast. The episode is now out: www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/mora...

And now, I'm thrilled to be starting a postdoc at Cornell Tech as part of the Digital Life Initiative!

Officially Dr. Semler! Graduated from Oxford with a DPhil (PhD) in Philosophy for my dissertation "On Artificial Moral Agency"! Special thanks to my wonderful supervisors @carissaveliz.bsky.social and Alison Hills; examiners Roger Crisp and David Shoemaker; and mentors, friends, and family.

Bitesize Ethics 2025: Session five Teaching Ethics to Machines Speaker: Jen Semler The background image is a colour headshot of Jen Semler, superimposed on UOI branding (natural patterns such as a tree ring or fingerprint) on a terracotta background.

Can we teach ethics to machines? And if we can, should we? Join @jensemler.bsky.social online on Wednesday 23rd to find out more...
uehiro.web.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth...

#Bitesize #ethics #AI #onlineeducation #PhilosophyMatters

A timing problem for instrumental convergence - Philosophical Studies Those who worry about a superintelligent AI destroying humanity often appeal to the instrumental convergence thesis—the claim that even if we don’t know what a superintelligence’s ultimate goals will ...

I'm also excited to share that another paper of mine, co-authored with Helena Ward and Rhys Southan, "A Timing Problem for Instrumental Convergence," is out in Philosophical Studies! doi.org/10.1007/s110...

I'm so excited to share that the first paper from my dissertation, "Moral Agency without Consciousness," is now out at the Canadian Journal of Philosophy! doi.org/10.1017/can....