I'm a Staff Research Scientist in the Responsibility Unit at Google DeepMind. I was previously an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Neuroscience Program at Rhodes College and an affiliated researcher with ANU's Humanizing Machine Intelligence Grand Challenge. I was also a Research Fellow in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University and a McDonnell Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in St. Louis.

My research is in the philosophy of cognitive science and neuroscience. I work on the nature of valuation and its role in theories of the mind. My current work includes investigating the possibility of meaningfully moral artificial intelligence.

My curriculum vitae: [PDF]

I'm married to fellow philosopher Ben Henke.

Recent external events

• M2L, Split, September 2025

• Philosophy of AI Summer School, Paris, July 2025

• RLDM, Workshop on Saving the Phenomena of Minds, Dublin, June 2025

• AI, Privacy, and Alignment Workshop, University of Oxford, May 2025 

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