Jasmine Gunkel

I'm an Assistant Professor at Western University (Ontario). I completed my PhD at the University of Southern California in 2023 and then did a 2 year postdoc at the NIH. Much of my research centers around intimacy. I think about what it is, why our intimate rights are so important, and how this should shape our behavior and policies. I explore, for instance, how we should regulate intimate labor and how we might design “pseudointimate” AI. While at the NIH, I thought a lot about intimacy in medicine, and how this shapes the obligations of researchers and medical professionals. I also work on other issues in bioethics, social philosophy of language, AI ethics, and animal ethics.