I have research interests in the ethics of artificial intelligence and the future of work. My current project, "Meaningfulness and Automation", is supported by a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant. In this project, I investigate the concept of algorithmic harm and the question whether our lives will lose meaning when work is automated. Together with Friedemann Bieber, I have also written about the benefits of collegial relationships, and about whether artificial agents can be good colleagues. I have worked on autonomy at work within an interdisciplinary research project 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 our research). I also have broader research interests in AI ethics. Here, I aim to bring deontological approaches to questions in machine ethics, and I work on the question whether the same moral considerations apply to human and machine behaviour.
I also work on 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.
I also work on 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.
