David Storrs-Fox

I am an Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and a Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Jesus College, Oxford. I am also a Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in Technology, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). For the 2026-27 academic year, I will be a Fellow at the Human Abilities Centre in Berlin. 

I received my PhD in Philosophy from New York University. I have a BPhil in Philosophy and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, both from Oxford.

My research is in moral philosophy, metaphysics, social ontology, and the philosophy of AI. I currently have two main projects:

• Deep Fallibility: What if there is nothing you can do infallibly — not even deciding or trying? I argue that this is our actual condition, with significant implications for risk, responsibility, and the metaphysics of abilities.

• Hybrid Groups: Tomorrow’s corporations and states will be human-AI hybrids. I explore how these hybrids might differ from their human-only predecessors, and what their rise will mean for collective responsibility and the ethics of AI. 

Broadly, both projects ask how the internal makeup of an agent — human, artificial, or collective — shapes what it can do, what it should do, and what it is responsible for. 

I have also published work in early modern philosophy and the metaphysics of time, and I regularly teach on Oxford's Ethics and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence courses. Email: david.storrs-fox@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.