Recent Talks

(Against) Merging with AI as a Safety Strategy
Canadian Philosophical Association; June 7, 2026, Dalhousie
Third Annual Southern Workshop on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies, April 2, 2026

Option Uncertainty
SLACRR (St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons & Rationality); May 18, 2026

Agent Uncertainty
EPP Inaugural Lecture; January 30, 2026, UBCO
Canadian Philosophical Association; June 2, 2025, Toronto

Uncertainty-Sensitive Ought: Lessons for AI Alignment
Bovay Engineering Applied Ethics Workshop on AI Value Alignment; April 10, 2025, Texas A&M

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
ANU Law & Philosophy Forum; October 18, 2023, Canberra
University of Adelaide’s Philosophy Colloquium Series; September 13, 2023, Adelaide

There is No Special Problem of Moral Uncertainty (based on work with Katie Steele)
EAGxAustralia; September 22-4, 2023, Melbourne
Choice and Inference Workshop, Australian National University; November 21, 2022, Canberra

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 27-28, 2023, Stanford

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

Extreme Internalism and Externalism
Normative Guidance Workshop, Australian National University; October 24-25, 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