Postdoctoral Researcher

Jurgis Karpus works at the intersection of philosophy, economics, and psychology, with a particular focus on rational choice, game theory, and AI ethics. He is especially interested in the modes of reasoning by which we arrive at personal decisions when we interact with fellow humans and automated artificial agents.

Mary Shelley’s observation that “nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change” feels especially striking today, amid the rapid and seemingly unstoppable advances in artificial intelligence research and applications.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Florian Richter works primarily in the philosophy and ethics of technology. He is particularly interested in how technology mediates our access to the world and ourselves. 

“In a fit of enthusiastic madness, I created a rational creature and was bound towards him to assure, as far as was in my power, his happiness and well-being.” Artificial intelligence is sometimes (mis-)understood as rational, and it challenges us to examine our own rationality. Furthermore, the anthropomorphization of AI always lingers in the background.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Benjamin Mullins is interested in questions in normative ethics and value theory. In particular, the ethics of collective action, and the philosophy of existential risk, as well as applied ethics.

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” Philosophers have historically debated the relation between moral action and the emotions. With the advent of ethical agents whose “mental states” differ significantly from our own, these debates are now becoming ever more pertinent.

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