I work on the ethics and law of AI: whether AIs have interests of their own, what legal standing they should have, and how humanity can avoid catastrophe as AI grows more capable. A running theme is that how AIs behave can be shaped by legal and economic institutions and not only by technical training, and that granting AIs legal rights may therefore make catastrophic outcomes less likely.

I am the author of three books: AI Rights (with Peter Salib, Cambridge University Press), AI Welfare: Agency, Consciousness, Sentience (with Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini, Oxford University Press), and Iterated Knowledge (Oxford University Press). I also publish in epistemology and philosophy of language.

I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong, a Senior Editor at AI Frontiers, and a Visiting Senior Scholar at Forethought. I was previously a Research Fellow at the Center for AI Safety. I received my PhD from Rutgers and my BA from Yale. You can contact me at simon.d.goldstein@gmail.com.