I am a philosopher interested in trust, trustworthiness, Artificial Intelligence, and online speech. I graduated with a Ph.D in Philosophy at the University of South Carolina in May 2022. I hold a B.S in Psychology. I also have an MSc in psycholinguistics from the University of Edinburgh. As of June 2024, I am a lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Canterbury in Christcurch, NZ. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at SUNY Oswego (2023-2024) and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Howard University (2022-2023). My current research focuses on connecting the philosophical literature on trust and trustworthiness to current issues in ethics of AI. More concretely, I am working on several projects related to the epistemology of fact-checking with an eye towards understanding how content moderation algorithms can better facilitate trust in trustworthy information sources.

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In my dissertation, I developed a framework for assessing the trustworthiness of AI-infused technologies, specifically chatbots for mental health. I centered questions of human vulnerability in arguing that trustworthiness is a context-dependent property. Thus an agent may be trustworthy relative to one individual or group, but not another. 

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My other research interests include philosophy of information, information ethics, and the regulation of digital technologies. My 2021 article “Detecting Fake News: Two Problems for Content Moderation” was published online in Philosophy and Technology.