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Biography
I am a post-doctoral fellow on the Humanising Machine Intelligence Grand Challenge project at the Australian National University (where I have been awarded the John Vincent Fellowship). I completed my post-doctoral fellowship at the Polonsky Academy of Advanced Study at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, after having received my PhD from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge in 2014.
Research interests
My main areas of research are ethics, both normative and applied, and the philosophy of technology.
My current project focuses on creating ethical machine intelligence: on both developing the theoretical framework necessary to understand the challenges and opportunities that AI affords and designing technology to implement my findings. Through working with other philosophers, as well as social and computer scientists, the Humanising Machine Intelligence project will progress through discovery, foundations and design to reshape our understanding of what it means to be ethical in the age of machine intelligences.
Qualifications
Expertise Areas
- APPLIED ETHICS
- History and Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
- Ethical Theory
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Projects
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Education outcomes and ethically aware machine learning
ACT Department of Education and Training
1/07/20 → 1/01/21
Project: Research
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Computing Plans that Signal Normative Compliance
Grastien, A., Benn, C. & Thiebaux, S., 2021, p. 509-518.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Reducing moral ambiguity in partially observed human-robot interactions
Benn, C. & Grastien, A., 2021, In: Advanced Robotics. 35, 9, p. 537-552Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Supererogation and Sequence
Bales, A. & Benn, C., 2021, In: Synthese. 198, p. 7763-7780Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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What is Wrong with Automated Influence
Benn, C. & Lazar, S., 2021, In: Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 52, 1, p. 125-148Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Playtest and the Power of Virtual Reality: Are Our Fears Real?
Benn, C., 2020, Black Mirror and Philosophy: Dark Reflections. David Kyle Johnson (ed.). 1st ed. Hoboken, United States: John Wiley & Sons Inc, p. 92-100Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter