Scholar
Joshua Hatherley
Google Scholar ID: FSo-m3YAAAAJ
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Philosophy of AI, University of Copenhagen
Citations & Impact
Citations
551
H-index
8
i10-index
8
Publications
16
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- July 17, 2025: Awarded 2026 Visiting Fellowship at FAU Erlangen’s Centre for Philosophy and AI Research (PAIR)
- June 24, 2025: Preprint 'Mechanistic Interpretability Needs Philosophy' (co-authored) released
- April 29, 2025: Preprint 'Federated Learning, Ethics, and the Double Black Box Problem in Medical AI' (co-authored) released
- April 4, 2025: Article 'A Moving Target in AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Dataset Shift, Model Updating, and the Problem of Update Opacity' published in Ethics and Information Technology
- Featured on podcasts including AITEC and Death by Algorithm discussing medical AI ethics and AI in warfare
Background
- Philosopher of technology and bioethicist
- Specializes in medical AI ethics
- Affiliated with the Center for Philosophy of AI (CPAI) at the University of Copenhagen
- Research bridges big-picture philosophical questions with real-world ethical, social, and political challenges posed by predictive, generative, conversational, and agentic AI
- Works at the intersection of philosophy, medicine, and computer science, collaborating widely across disciplines
- Current interests include: academic norms in the LLM age, federated learning in healthcare, AI-driven aesthetic judgments in cosmetic surgery, LLMs in healthcare administration, companion chatbots (especially postmortem avatars or 'griefbots'), and mechanistic interpretability
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