People
Principal Investigators
Herman Cappelen
I’m a philosopher. I currently work as a Chair Professor of philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. Before I moved to Hong Kong, I worked at the Universities of Oslo, St Andrews, and Oxford. My first job was at Vassar College.
My current research focus is on the philosophy of AI, Conceptual Engineering, the conceptual foundations of political discourse, externalism in the philosophy of mind and language, and the interconnections between all of these. However, my philosophical interests are broad – they cover more or less all areas of systematic philosophy.
Rachel Sterken
I am Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, and co-director of ConceptLab Hong Kong.
My research centers on philosophy of language and connects to a broad range of issues in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, social philosophy and developmental psychology.
Nate Sharadin
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey. Before that, I was the Sutton Faculty Fellow at Syracuse University, and before that I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University. I received my Ph.D. from UNC Chapel Hill, under the supervision of Geoffrey Sayre-McCord and Simon Blackburn.
Boris Babic
I work primarily in ethics, law, and policy of artificial intelligence and machine learning, especially in medical applications. I also work in Bayesian statistics and epistemology. Formerly, I was an Assistant Professor at INSEAD, both in France and Singapore, and a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). I received a JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, an MS in Statistics and a PhD in Philosophy, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Simon Goldstein
Haochen Sun (HKU Law)
Haochen Sun is Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. He previously served as the Director of the Law and Technology Center and the LLM Program in Technology and Intellectual Property Law at the Faculty of Law. He specialises in intellectual property, technology law, and Chinese law. His recent scholarship focuses on the theoretical and policy foundations of intellectual property, Chinese intellectual property law, and technology law and the public interest. He has won major research grants, and prizes. His most recent book is Technology and Public Interest (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Visiting Professor (TBA)
Post-doctoral Fellow
Frank Hong
I am currently a Research Fellow at the Center for AI Safety, and a Postdoctoral Research with the AI&Humanity Lab at the University of Hong Kong. I was recently awarded my PhD from the University of Southern California (USC). My areas of specialization include the philosophy of language, logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of AI.
External Affiliates
London AI and Humanity Project
The Project brings together interdisciplinary researchers from academia and industry to investigate human interaction with AI. They are based at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London, School of Advanced Study.
Center for AI Safety
The Center for AI Safety(CAIS — pronounced ‘case’) is a San Francisco-based research and field-building nonprofit. They believe that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to profoundly benefit the world, provided that they can develop and use it safely. However, in contrast to the dramatic progress in AI, many basic problems in AI safety have yet to be solved. Their mission is to reduce societal-scale risks associated with AI by conducting safety research, building the field of AI safety researchers, and advocating for safety standards.
Administrative Staff
Erica Lam
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