Aydin Mohseni is a scientific philosopher and assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. His research centers on two questions: how scientific communities produce knowledge, and how agents represent the world, value outcomes, and act. His work on agency focuses especially on artificial intelligence, including the foundations of AI safety, agency, and alignment. He uses Bayesian inference, decision and game theory, network theory, and agent-based modeling to study problems ranging from scientific funding and reform to causal reasoning and value learning in artificial agents. He is a member of CMU’s Institute for Complex Social Dynamics and the center for Conceptual Foundations of Safe AI.
Previously, he was a senior research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his doctorate in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine, supervised by Dr. Simon Huttegger and Dr. Cailin O’Connor.
Some years ago, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco, stationed near أزرو.
His Erdős number is 3. (By way of Brian Skyrms to Perci Diaconis to Paul Erdős.)
Contact
amohseni [at] cmu [dot] edu