About

What a moral technologist is, and how I came to be one.

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I've spent my career at the intersection between engineering and its human and social demands. I worked as a research scientist and tech ethics advisor inside Google's AI teams for five years, where I helped product and research teams work through the judgment calls that compliance checklists were unable to cover. I hold a DPhil from Oxford's Internet Institute in engineering and research ethics, researched frontier AI governance as a postdoc at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, and am currently an Ethics and Technology Practitioner Fellow at Stanford's McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, developing frameworks for AI's role in scientific discovery. Before any of this I worked as a policy advisor in the European Parliament and practiced as a tech law attorney.

I'm also currently pursuing a master's in moral and political philosophy at Leiden University. Law and policy rarely tell technical teams what they ought to do during the years before courts and regulators catch up with new technology. That regulatory gap is exactly where the most consequential decisions are made, and I have found that moral philosophy provides the required reasoning methods inside that gap. It gives engineering teams a practical method for testing whether a choice is right. It provides a precise vocabulary to articulate and defend those justifications to regulators, users, or colleagues who might disagree.

What this means in practice

I see existing laws and compliance lists as the floor from which we work. We will discover together which technical choices are ethically loaded, how to design a system to be defensible in five years rather than just compliant today, and think through what your team owes users and society beyond what regulation currently demands. I help teams reason through exactly those questions, and turn the reasoning into concrete decisions they can communicate.

See the ways I work with teams, or read about how engagements start.