Ethics of AI and Computing

• Ethics & policy of AI
• Robot ethics
• Surveillance and privacy
• Risks of digital manufacturing and synthetic biology
• Ethics of knowing, e.g. “Should there be forbidden knowledge?”

Philosophy of Mind, Language and Computing

• Conceptual and ethical challenges of progress towards human-level AI, esp. computationalism
• Benchmarking and testing of artificial intelligence (or cognitive ability in technical systems)
• Theory of computing, especially within the philosophy of mind: computationalism, hypercomputing, morphological computing, digital states, pancomputationalism
• Vagueness (in relation to categorisation and to computing)
• Putnam’s concept of “conceptual relativity” and anti-realism in genera