h e l l o !!!

i'm josh, a bioethicist and philosopher of technology specialising in medical ai ethics at the university of copenhagen's center for philosophy of ai (cpai). i received my ph.d. from monash university in 2024, where my dissertation (data over dialogue: why artificial intelligence is unlikely to humanise medicine) won the school prize for “best ph.d. thesis in philosophy and bioethics”

my research connects big picture philosophical questions with real world social, ethical, political challenges arising from predictive, generative, conversational, agentic ai. i work at the intersection of philosophy, medicine, computer science in collaboration with researchers from a broad spectrum of academic, professional specialisations. i’m often interested in collaborating on new projects (interdisciplinary or otherwise) so please feel free to reach out if you wish to discuss any ideas

right now, i’m particularly interested in: academic research, writing, teaching norms in the llm-age; federated learning in healthcare; ai-driven aesthetic judgments in cosmetic surgery; large language models in healthcare administration; companion chatbots (esp. postmortem avators, “griefbots”); and mechanistic interpretability

* these are some gentle, friendly danish holstein cows i enjoyed visiting when i lived in århus, denmark

n e w s !!!

  • 7/9/2025: new podcast appearance on aitec (ai and technology ethics circle) discussing my recent article, “are clinicians ethically obligation to disclose their use of medical machine learning systems to patients?” [listen] / [read]

  • 17/7/2025: awarded 2026 visiting fellowship with fau erlangen’s centre for philosophy and ai research (pair).

  • 24/6/2025: new pre-print, “mechanistic interpretability needs philosophy” (with iwan williams, ninell oldenburg, ruchira dhar, constanza fierro, nina rajcic, sandrine r. schiller, filippos stamatiou, and anders søgaard) [read]

  • 15/5/2025: new podcast appearance on death by algorithm discussing the impact of model updating on ai-assisted decision-making in warfare [listen]

  • 29/4/2025: new pre-print, “federated learning, ethics, and the double black box problem in medical ai” (with anders søgaard, angela ballantyne, and ruben pauwels) [read]

  • 4/4/2025: new article, “a moving target in AI-assisted decision-making: dataset shift, model updating, and the problem of update opacity,” published in ethics and information technology [read]