James Evershed uses formal tools to tackle problems in areas of ethics including our duties to help those in need, the right to privacy, population ethics, axiology, animal ethics, equality, and desert. James is passionate about working on real-world issues and was drawn to the Kavli Center by its commitment to helping technological advances be beneficial to everyone.
During the Kavli Ethics, Science, and the Public Graduate Fellowship James hopes to work on: (1) the implications of predictive algorithms for our privacy; (2) whether the control problem for artificial intelligence can be solved by departing from expected utility theory; and (3) objections to germline editing.
Beyond academia, James' big love is going on adventures in the mountains. He is a keen rock climber and enjoys backpacking. Future projects include learning to ice climb and the dream is to climb El Capitan.
