Hello!

I'm Josh, a bioethicist and philosopher of technology specialising in medical AI ethics at the University of Copenhagen's Center for the Philosophy of AI. I received my PhD from Monash University in 2024, where my dissertation — “Data over dialogue: Why artificial intelligence is unlikely to humanise medicine” — won the award for Best PhD Thesis in Philosophy and Bioethics.

My research aims to connect big picture philosophical questions with real world ethical problems that arise with new technologies. I work at the intersection of philosophy, medicine, and computer science, and frequently contribute to interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers from these (and other) specialisations. I’m always open and excited to work on collaborative projects, so please feel free to reach out with any ideas.

My current projects focus on ethical and epistemological challenges arising from federated learning in healthcare, AI-driven aesthetic judgments in cosmetic surgery, large language models in healthcare administration, chatbots and postmortem avators (“griefbots”), and mechanistic interpretability.