Daniel Kilov
Scholar

Daniel Kilov

Google Scholar ID: ESD-v_oAAAAJ
Australian National University
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Publications
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A Scalable Approach to Evaluating Moral Sensitivity in LLMs
2026
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NoRA: Evaluating Grounded Reasonableness in Visual First-person Normative Action Reasoning
2026
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Emergence is Overrated: AGI as an Archipelago of Experts
2026
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Resource Rational Contractualism Should Guide AI Alignment
2025
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Discerning What Matters: A Multi-Dimensional Assessment of Moral Competence in LLMs
2025
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Resume
Academic Achievements
  • Academic Publications:
  • · Kilov, D., & Hendy, C. (2022). 'Pundits and Possibilities: Philosophers Are Not Modal Experts.' Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1–20.
  • · Kilov, D. (2021). 'The brittleness of expertise and why it matters.' Synthese, 199(1–2), 3431–3455.
  • · Kilov, D. (2023). 'Brittle virtue or bust: a new challenge to virtue-as-skill theories.' Synthese, 202(3), 88.
  • Selected Non-Academic Publications:
  • · Kilov, D. (2012). 'The rise and fall of remembering.' TableAus (Issue 398), Australian Mensa Journal.
  • · Kilov, D. (2013). Book Review of 'Moonwalking with Einstein', Reinvention: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research, 6(1).
  • · Kilov, D. (2015). 'Misunderstanding Memory in the Classroom.' In T. Ali (Ed.), How to Learn Anything in 48 Hours. Hardie Grant Books.
  • Academic Talks and Presentations:
  • · 2023: 'The Mnemonomicon' – presentation of an AI agent at Demo Day, School of Cybernetics, Canberra.
  • · 2022: 'The shape and limits of philosophical expertise' – PhD pre-submission talk, ANU Philsoc Seminar.
  • · 2021: 'The Zettlekasten Method for Philosophers' – Foundations Seminar for ANU graduate students.
  • · 2020: 'Are Philosophers Expert Modal Reasoners?' – G.E.M.S. seminar, New York.
  • · 2019: 'Do Philosophers Show Signs of…' (incomplete)
Research Experience
  • Feb 2024 – Sep 2024: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Philosophy, ANU, on the ARC Linkage Project 'Socially Responsible Insurance in the Age of AI'.
  • Apr – Aug 2022: Research Officer in complexity science, National Security College, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU.
  • 2017–2022: Tutor at ANU for courses including Logic and Critical Thinking, PPE Integration, Buddhist Philosophy, and Philosophy of Mind.
  • 2018–2020: ANU Graduate Student Representative.
  • 2022–2023: Affiliate of the Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) Lab at ANU.
Background
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University (ANU), working in the Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) lab.
  • Specializes in philosophy of cognitive science, moral psychology, and AI ethics.
  • Advocates for philosophers to be omnivorous in their use of evidence and to combine traditional philosophical analysis with experimental methods from cognitive and behavioral sciences.
  • Areas of specialty: Experimental philosophy, metaphilosophy, philosophy of skill, virtue theory and moral psychology, philosophy of cognitive science.
  • Areas of competence: Buddhist philosophy, philosophy of mind, social epistemology, AI ethics, philosophy of science, cybernetics.