I'm a Staff Research Scientist in the Responsibility Unit at Google DeepMind. 

My research is in philosophy and cognitive science. I work on the nature of valuation and its role in theories of the mind, especially in normative cognition. Probably my most representative paper is on the evaluative nature of the mind. My current work also includes investigating the possibility of meaningfully moral artificial intelligence.

My curriculum vitae: [PDF]

I'm married to fellow philosopher Ben Henke. 

News and events

• New paper in Nature on evaluating for moral competence in LLMs 

• AI For and With Humans Workshop, The Royal Society, March 2026 

• Reinforcement Learning and Philosophy Workshop, August 2026

Links

• Humanizing Machine Intelligence at the Australian National University

• Predictive Processing Workshop at Tufts

• Decision Making Workshop at Washington University in St. Louis

• Emory-Tibet Science Initiative, for whom I have taught Philosophy of Science