Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Duke University

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University with secondary appointments in Duke’s Law School and Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. His research and teaching focus on moral artificial intelligence, political polarization, free will and moral responsibility, and various other topics in moral psychology and neuroscience. His recent books include Free Will: Philosophers and Neuroscientists in Conversation co-edited with Uri Maoz (2022) and Moral AI and How We Get There co-authored with Jana Schaich Borg and Vincent Conitzer (2024).

Just as we need to know the intentions of humans who interact with us, we also cannot live safely with AI unless we understand whether AI has intentions and, if so, what its intentions are. This initiative is necessary now before it is too late.