I’m a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California Irvine. I am currently a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Policy at California Polytechnic University Pomona, where I also teach applied ethics and non-Western courses in the Philosophy Department.

My work focuses on how knowledge transmission and social unity are impeded by what groups believe and what we believe about groups. Through my work, I aim to improve our ability to collectively acquire truth-sensitive and justice-conducive beliefs. I’m currently engaged in two research programs:

My project in the philosophy of AI identifies and addresses novel ethical, social, political, and engineering challenges raised by generative AI. I’m especially interested in genAI’s portrayal of social groups through language and imagery. For instance, how should Dall-E and Midjourney render women, immigrants, democrats, and philosophy professors? In a work in progress, I critically examine how large language models communicate generalizations in a world patterned by stereotypes and discrimination and propose solutions that are philosophically informed and technically feasible.

My project in collective ethics and the epistemology of groups investigates normatively binding beliefs that stifle social progress. Here I am particularly concerned with large-scale epistemic pathologies such as group hypocrisy and collective distrust.