Newspaper articles, blog posts, and public philosophy pieces

  • What is the Ground of the Moral Right to Parent our Biological Children?

    Journal of Medical Ethics Blog (2025)

    I challenge the idea that the moral right to parent our biological children should be grounded by appeal to the value of the intimate emotional relationship that gestation facilitates between a newborn and a gestational procreator.

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  • Gegen KI-generierte Deepfakes hilft KI-Erkennung nur begrenzt. Es braucht Resilienz und einen moralischen Kompass

    Neue Züricher Zeitung (2024)

    Mit der expandierenden technischen Möglichkeit, mittels medialer KI-Technik Dinge zu zeigen und zu behaupten, die es niemals gegeben hat, droht eine weitere Auflösung des Wahrheitsbegriffs, der die Gesellschaft im Innern zusammenhält. Was ist dagegen zu tun?

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  • Spotify’s Spotty Platform Rules Won’t Stop Misinformation

    Medium (2022).

    Summary: Ted Lechterman and I provide some analysis on Spotify's recently released platform rules. Our verdict: it is difficult to avoid the impression that Spotify’s new rules are mainly an ad hoc list of banned content.

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  • Can AI Stop Disinformation?

    Compass Ideas (2022).

    Summary: From Covid-19 to Fake News, recent conflicts have clarified the threat of disinformation. Is AI the answer? I consider some neglected ethical challenges.

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  • The key role of an organisation’s ethical stance (with Rob Hayward)

    The Scotsman (2020).

    Summary: We argue that a widespread move to remote working, leaders should give more attention to company culture and ethics, in particular, remote ethical culture.

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  • “Should You Switch to an Altruistic Career?”

    Practical Ethics Blog: Ethics in the News (2016).

    Summary: I consider whether we have special reason to continue with our current careers as opposed to switching to one that does ‘more good’.

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Watch me talk about parental rights

This is webinar by the American Philosophical Association on Reproductive Ethics and Public Philosophy featured some of my work on the right to parent our biological children. The full webinar can be found on the APA website here.

The importance of digital ethics (in German)

This is a short interview and discussion about the importance of ethics from the 2024 Digital Ethics Summit orgamnised by the Rheinische Post.

Talk about my doctoral research

This is an overview of some of my research work from my doctoral studies. This was filmed as part of the 'Rising Researchers' by St Anne's College at the University of Oxford.

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