Author of 'For the Common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics', published by Oxford University Press and available as an open access title; Published papers in journals such as Mind, The Philosopher’s Imprint, Science, JAMA, The Lancet, The BMJ, PLoS Medicine, Statistics In Medicine, The Hastings Center Report, and others; Contributed to key ethical guidelines for the oversight of research with human participants, including the CIOMS 2002 International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects and the 2013 Declaration of Helsinki.
Research Experience
Co-lead of the K&L Gates Initiative in Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University; Member of the WHO Expert Group on Ethics and Governance of AI; Member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative for Translating Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation (ACT-ESTI); Member of the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) from 2020-2025; Co-leader of the ethics core for the NSF AI Institute for Collaborative Assistance and Responsive Interaction for Networked Groups (AI-CARING); Member of the steering committee for the AAAI / ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society (AIES).
Background
K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies, focusing on ethical and policy issues surrounding the development and deployment of novel technologies in medicine, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence, as well as methodological issues in theoretical and practical ethics.