Louie is a DPhil student in Philosophy at the University of Oxford (Worcester College), supported by a scholarship from the Institute for Ethics in AI. He is supervised by Prof Alison Hills.
Louie holds an MPhil in Ethics of AI, Data & Algorithms from the University of Cambridge, where he conducted research with the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. His work there addressed the ethics of deception in AI companionship, the case against attempting to create sentient AI, and the possible moral status of AI systems. He previously completed a BA in Philosophy at the University of Bristol.
At Oxford, Louie is continuing his work on AI companionship and human-AI relationships, focusing in particular on the moral questions raised by the emotional and behavioural responses that merely conscious-seeming AI companions provoke in their users.