Caspar Kaiser

I am an Associate Professor with the Behavioural Science Group at Warwick Business School.  I am also a research fellow at Oxford University's Wellbeing Research Centre, a research affiliate at Cambridge Digital Minds, and chair of the board of the Happier Lives Institute. 

Currently, I primarily work on AI sentience, welfare, and the moral psychology of digital minds. See here for a project using 'truth classifiers', to investigate whether LLMs believe themselves to be sentient and to be moral patients. I am also working on projects relating to the determinants of AI welfare and on inter-AI morality.

Much of my prior research has focused on the measurement and determinants of human wellbeing.

Regarding measurement, I worked on improving the comparability of survey data on people’s feelings and analyse whether such data can measure welfare cardinally (e.g. see here, here, here). Concerning determinants, I worked on investigating how social comparisons and inequalities, particularly with respect to household incomes, shape people’s wellbeing (e.g. see here, here).

I hold a DPhil in Social Policy from Nuffield College and the Department of Social Policy & Intervention. Brian Nolan (INET, Oxford) and Maarten Vendrik (SBE, Maastricht) supervised my doctorate. Before joining Warwick,  I was a postdoc at Oxford University and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University.