Hello! I'm Bill D'Alessandro. My research is on philosophy of science, math and AI, with occasional forays into applied ethics and other topics. Explanation and understanding in scientific practice are recurring themes in my science-oriented work. On the ethics side, I'm particularly interested in the transformative effects and potential risks of future AI systems.
I'm an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at William & Mary.
I was previously a a Marie Skłodowska-Curie/UKRI Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. Before that I was a postdoc at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philos…
Hello! I'm Bill D'Alessandro. My research is on philosophy of science, math and AI, with occasional forays into applied ethics and other topics. Explanation and understanding in scientific practice are recurring themes in my science-oriented work. On the ethics side, I'm particularly interested in the transformative effects and potential risks of future AI systems.
I'm an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at William & Mary.
I was previously a a Marie Skłodowska-Curie/UKRI Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. Before that I was a postdoc at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU (Ludwig Maximilian University) and a resident Philosophy Fellow at the Center for AI Safety in San Francisco. I did my PhD in philosophy, and an MS in math, at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
