My current research project lies in the ethics of artificial intelligence. I am especially interested in the future of work and the concept of meaningful work, asking questions such as: Should we welcome a world without work? How might artificial intelligence technology at the workplace undermine or promote meaningful work? This project builds on my work as part of an interdisciplinary research project on the use of AI in logistics at the Technical University of Munich, where I closely collaborated with engineers and social scientists to develop a prototype of a preference-aware scheduling system for logistics workers (in this Q&A video, my colleague Charlotte Haid and I talk about AI Ethics, the future of work, and our research). Eventually, I hope to further expand this project into an exploration of technology and the good life. Moreover, in AI ethics, I am also interested in bringing deontological approaches to questions in machine ethics, and am working on the question whether the same moral considerations apply to human and machine behaviour.
Most of my published research lies in the metaphysics of harm and the morality of harming. I develop and defend a novel account of harm, the hybrid account of harm. In developing the hybrid account, I defend (as one of its components) the temporal account of harm, which has often been dismissed in the literature. I also explore challenges facing the deontological constraint against doing harm in cases of long-term harms, actions under risk, and actions of undoing one's previous harmful conduct. More recently, I've become interested in the morality of benefits and beneficence, and I am actively working on questions such as whether there is a morally relevant difference between doing and allowing good, and whether there is an asymmetry between harms and benefits.
I have further research interests in intergenerational ethics. I argue that the present generation has direct duties towards future generations in virtue of causing them to exist, and suggest that these duties are (very roughly, but relevantly) analogous to parents' responsibility towards their children. More recently, I started exploring deontological perspectives on 'longtermist' views on duties towards future generations.
I am further interested in topics in business ethics, in particular social responsibility, digital transformation and sustainability. As a research assistant in a research project in business ethics at the University of Reading, I worked with Emma Borg on the 'social licence' model for responsible firm behaviour.
Most of my published research lies in the metaphysics of harm and the morality of harming. I develop and defend a novel account of harm, the hybrid account of harm. In developing the hybrid account, I defend (as one of its components) the temporal account of harm, which has often been dismissed in the literature. I also explore challenges facing the deontological constraint against doing harm in cases of long-term harms, actions under risk, and actions of undoing one's previous harmful conduct. More recently, I've become interested in the morality of benefits and beneficence, and I am actively working on questions such as whether there is a morally relevant difference between doing and allowing good, and whether there is an asymmetry between harms and benefits.
I have further research interests in intergenerational ethics. I argue that the present generation has direct duties towards future generations in virtue of causing them to exist, and suggest that these duties are (very roughly, but relevantly) analogous to parents' responsibility towards their children. More recently, I started exploring deontological perspectives on 'longtermist' views on duties towards future generations.
I am further interested in topics in business ethics, in particular social responsibility, digital transformation and sustainability. As a research assistant in a research project in business ethics at the University of Reading, I worked with Emma Borg on the 'social licence' model for responsible firm behaviour.