Hello :)

My name is Carlo, assistant professor at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. My research interests lie at the intersection of decision theory and normative ethics. My primary areas of focus are AI ethics, business ethics, and moral/political philosophy. I'm currently co-PI on a Leverhulme Research Project Grant on 'Intrinsically Aligned Machine Learning', led with Fabio Cuzzolin.

My work begins from a simple thought in moral epistemology: what we believe, what we value, and what we are prepared to endorse can change over time. I ask which epistemic conditions make such a change possible, and when agents are entitled to treat a rival evaluative outlook as a live option rather than something that can be dismissed. That matters ethically and politically because a great deal of moral theory, and a great deal of institutional design, proceeds as if preferences and moral outlooks were stable enough to be treated as fixed inputs. I develop arguments about justice, legitimacy, and responsibility that treat moral and evaluative change as central.  A recurring strand in my work concerns how institutions, markets, and decision procedures should respond when people’s values shift: when the right response is to adjust expectations and requirements, and when the right response is to hold the line.

I'm into long-distance running, wine, and philosophy! Sometimes I blog at Paperclips and Other Alignment Problems :)