Recent Talks

The AI-Design Regress
The 14th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research
June 13, 2024, Oxford

The Hard Problem of Value Alignment
Pacific APA
March 23, 2024, Portland

The Hard Problem of Value Alignment
ANU Law & Philosophy Forum
October 18, 2023, Canberra

There is No Special Problem of Moral Uncertainty (based on work with Katie Steele)
EAGxAustralia
September 22-4, 2023, Melbourne

The Hard Problem of Value Alignment
University of Adelaide’s Philosophy Colloquium Series
September 13, 2023, Adelaide

Action Guidance and AI Alignment
AAI/ACM conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society
August 8-10, 2023, Montreal


Cluelessness, Counterintuitiveness, and Subjective Betterness
Symposium on Scientific Evidence and Uncertainty about the Long-Term Future at the 17th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology
July 24-29, 2023, Buenos Aires

What’s New in Normative Uncertainty? (based on work with Katie Steele)
Formal Epistemology Symposium at the 17th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology
July 24-29, 2023, Buenos Aires

Provably Good
Philosophy, AI, and Society Workshop
January 27-8, 2023, Stanford

The Outsourcing Account of Moral Deference
8th Australasian Workshop in Moral Philosophy
January 23-5, 2023, Australian National University Kioloa Campus

There is No Special Problem of Moral Uncertainty (based on work with Katie Steele)
Choice and Inference Workshop, Australian National University
November 21, 2022, Canberra

Extreme Internalism and Externalism
Normative Guidance Workshop, Australian National University
October 24-5 2022, Canberra


Uncertain Alignment
Metaethics and AI Workshop
July 8 2022, Eindhoven

Moral Uncertainty, Noncognitivism, and the Multi-Objective Story (based on work with Katie Steele)
Formal Ethics Conference
January 13 2022, Online

How Bad is the Metanormative Regress?
Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference
July 2021, Online


Moral Disagreement and Artificial Intelligence
AAAI/ACM conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society
May 2021, Online


Moral Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence
University of Queensland’s Effective Altruism and AI & Machine Learning Societies
May 2021, Online

To What Extent Are We Left in the Dark About What to Do?
University of Sydney’s Philosophy Department Seminar Series
April 2021, Sydney


The Nightlight Principle: Normative Internalism, Anti-Luminosity, and the Limits of Normative Theory
ANU School of Philosophy Seminar Series
March 2021, Canberra


Comments on Moral Uncertainty (with Katie Steele)
Book Symposium on William MacAskill et al.’s Moral Uncertainty
February 2021, Institute for Future Studies, Online