I am an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. For more about me, see my personal website at https://www.avathomaswright.com.

I am engaged in two main research programs: 1) "rightful machines," which are highly autonomous machine agents that respect principles of justice and law, and 2) the duty of "veracity," which is a rightfully enforceable duty of truthfulness when reporting expert knowledge such as scientific knowledge. Both research programs rely on distinctively Kantian insights into the coordinated relationship between law and ethics, although neither depen…

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