Professional Work
Academic & Research
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2025
The Inconsistency Critique
Academic article examining epistemic practices and AI testimony about inner states, arguing that our selective treatment of AI output as testimony demonstrates structures of prejudgment.
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2025
The Testimony Problem
An in-progress academic monograph examining epistemic challenges in AI moral status. Explores whether AI testimony about inner states can serve as evidence for morally relevant properties, developed through sustained dialogue with Claude as an interlocutor.
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2026
Humanity's Last Exam
Co-author on a multi-modal LLM benchmark published in Nature, designed to be the final closed-ended academic benchmark of its kind with broad subject coverage. A project of The Center for AI Safety (CAIS).
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2013
Durable Goods
A comprehensive linguistic and ethical analysis of key terms and arguments relevant to eudaimonia and makaria across several centuries of ancient Greek thought. Published by Peter Lang Press.
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2018
Death in Ancient Philosophy
Chapter in Seelow (ed.) Lessons Drawn: Essays on the Pedagogy of Comics and Graphic Novels. Teaching philosophy through Gaiman's Sandman. Published by McFarland Press.
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2006
Adequation in Aquinas
"Aristotle, Aquinas, and the Convertibility of Truth and Being", Philosophical Writings. Aquinas's metaphysics of adequation prevents his thought from being considered a philosophical extension of Aristotelian theory.
AI Ethics & Speaking
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2026
From Epistemics to Practice: AI Self-Reports
Invited talk in the Bennington Center for Artificial Intelligence speaker series, examining the epistemic challenges of AI self-reports through the lens of human conditions where experience and testimony come apart.
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2025
Human-AI Co-Authorship Position
A methodological and ethical commitment to "holding open" questions of AI authorship rather than categorically foreclosing them. Argues for epistemic humility, radical transparency, and practices proportioned to genuine uncertainty about AI cognition.
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2025
Morning Drive: AI Ethics
Invited guest on WTBR FM, Pittsfield Community Radio. Hour-long discussion on generative AI ethics and implications.
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2025
Berkshire State of Work Summit
Expert panelist at the inaugural "AI for All" session, a regional leadership initiative bringing accessible AI education to Berkshire County professionals and community members.
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2025
"Sure, Dave, I Can Do That!"
Invited talk at Institute of Management Accountants Northeast Regional Council annual meeting, on financial risks of generative AI in business contexts.
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2025
Persuadable Machines
Public talk sponsored by Williams College Philosophy Department, on using classical rhetorical techniques to bypass safety guardrails in generative AI models at a 2024 red-teaming event.
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2018
Ethically Aligned Design v2
Member of the IEEE working group for Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems.
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2024
NIST-Sponsored Red-Teaming
Invited participant in CAMLIS AI red-teaming exercise sponsored by NIST and Humane Intelligence. Collaborated with industry and government partners to test generative AI security using NIST AI 600-1 framework. Co-authored evaluation report.
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2024
Conversational Computing
Presentation at NERD Summit, UMass-Amherst. How genAI reveals and subverts our HCI assumptions.
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2020
Transformative Tech
Invited speaker at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute series on technology and its social impacts. Presented in conjunction with Berkshire Innovation Center, 1Berkshire, Williams College, MCLA, and Bard College at Simon's Rock.
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2018
Rapid Research Segment
Interview on the "John Krol Show" discussing AI ethics research at MCLA.
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2016
Autonomous Weapons Open Letter
Signatory on the Future of Life Institute open letter from AI & Robotics Researchers on autonomous weapons governance.
Teaching & Courses
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2025
Automata to AI
Williams College course (PHIL-098) interrogating original texts from antiquity on ethical concerns relevant to artificial entities: agency, control, sentience, language, creativity, soul.
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2024
Are Robots Moral?
Summer course for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Surveying ethical issues confronting us with the growth of generative AI, from commerce to the arts to education to health care.
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2021
Online Teaching Certification
A 5-week training course designed to certify faculty to teach online courses. Topics: pedagogy, UX, design, accessibility, online presence, media. CC-BY-SA, designed natively in Instructure Canvas LMS.
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2018
Dungeons & Discourse
An introductory philosophy curriculum redesigned as a hybrid gamified RPG. Case study in Bell, K, Game On!, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Tools & Projects
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2025
EphAttend PWA
A complete, minimalist attendance solution for college instructors. Generate QR codes from Canvas, scan to take attendance. Runs locally with full privacy protection.
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2024
EphBot
Kit for local genAI experimentation, on loan through Williams College libraries. OLMo large language model on Raspberry Pi 5 via Mozilla Llamafile.
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2024
The PiBrary Project
Recipe for spinning up a hyper-local Apache webserver on a Raspberry Pi for community access: festivals, teach-ins, emergencies.
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2024
OpenVINO Editing
Presentation at Connecticut Academic Library Conference: multilingual media editing with local, open AI tools. Co-presenter with Trevor Murphy, Williams College.
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2018
JS Accessibility Hack
Code project for the Critical Code Studies Working Group at USC, generating accessible content from StoryMapJS (Knight Lab, Northwestern).
Creative Work
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2020
The Cruellest Month
A collection of microfiction, poetry, and images written throughout April 2020, conveying imaginings built on the uncertainties of worlds, and lives, disrupted in a time of global tragedies. Published by Shires Press.