It’s me, Antonio.

I’m a postdoc working on epistemology, neuromorphic hardware, and philosophy of mind at the Neuromorphic Quantumphotonics Group at Heidelberg University. I’m also completing a postdoc project on the theory of artificial neural networks at the Humboldt Professorship for AI at Leipzig University.

I wrote my doctoral dissertation investigating whether an AI-driven machine needs semantics in order to exhibit a functionality that can be considered moral. For that purpose, I examined reinforcement learning algorithms. My origin story includes the study of philosophy and computer science, which might explain a few things.

Long story short: I can say something about ethics and AI (and I continue to do so in seminars and talks). Currently, however, my focus is on hardware and chip design that is neuroscientifically and biologically informed: always from a philosophical perspective.