person
Agnes Callard
University of Chicago philosopher; aspiration theorist
University of Chicago philosopher whose work on aspiration and value-development has been applied by some AI ethics writers to the question of how AIs might come to acquire values.
current Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
Strategy positions
Alignment firstmixed
Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds closeHer aspiration framework, how do agents come to hold values they did not previously have, applies to the question of how AI agents might develop values.
Aspiration is the process by which we acquire values we did not previously have. The question of whether AI can do this is the alignment question, philosophically.
Closest strategy neighbours
by jaccard overlapOther people whose strategy tags overlap with Agnes Callard's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.
Record last updated 2026-04-25.