In the age of AI, an ever-increasing range of concepts so far primarily in the domain of philosophy is becoming central to technological development. This includes concepts like agency and autonomy, reason and intention, virtue, and human flourishing.
Our Laboratory for Human-Centered AI (HAI Lab) is pioneering Philosophy-to-Code as a research area that aims to translate philosophical insights into the practical domain of open-source development and software design. HAI Lab brings together extraordinary individuals, ranging from graduate students to industry veterans, from both philosophy and engineering backgrounds and engages them in both philosophical inquiry and engineering practice.
We believe that advancing technology in service of human flourishing requires a new kind of character: the philosopher-builder, who is not only technically exceptional but also capable of thinking systematically about the values that guide design.
Working in this research area
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Philipp Koralus is McCord Professor of Philosophy and AI and Director of the Human-Centered AI Lab (HAI Lab) in the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Reason and Inquiry (OUP 2023). His research interests focus on bringing philosophy into tech, specifically around the concepts of reason and agency, and bringing AI into the service of human flourishing. He is a Fellow by Special Election at St. Catherine’s College.
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Raphaël Millière is an Associate Professor in Theoretical Philosophy and Computer Science and AI2050 Fellow. His research investigates foundational questions about the cognitive capacities and limitations of AI systems.
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Vincent is a research scientist at Quantinuum, a start-up scaling quantum computing.
He specialises in AI and cognitive science, with a particular focus on applied category theory, reasoning, formal linguistics, and AI explainability.
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Theodor Nenu is an Early Career Research Fellow in AI and Theoretical Philosophy. Theodor’s current research interests fall within the Philosophy of AI and Cognitive Science - with a special interest in the theoretical and ethical questions raised by artificial minds.
Publications
- Philipp Koralus, Vincent Wang-Mascianica co-authors: 'Humans In Humans Out: A synthetic data set to evaluate human-like reasoning patterns in LLMs in both success and failure', 2025
- Philipp Koralus author: 'The philosophic turn for AI agents: replacing centralized digital rhetoric with decentralized truth-seeking', 2025
- Theodor Nenu co-author: 'Did Turing prove the undecidability of the halting problem?' 2026
Media
- Philip Torr and Ryan Kearns, co-authors: quoted in The Guardian 'Measuring What Matters: Construct Validity in Large Language Model Benchmarks', 2025.