Daniel Herrmann

Daniel Herrmann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is also Core Faculty in the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program. He holds a PhD in Logic and Philosophy of Science from the University of California, Irvine, and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Groningen. His research specializes in decision theory, formal epistemology, and the philosophy of artificial intelligence, with a focus on mathematical and computational models of optimal reasoning and learning as applied to artificial agents and self-reasoning systems. He was a fellow at PIBBSS (Program for Integrated Research in Alignment), and received funding from the Long-Term Future Fund to support the final year of his PhD research on embedded agency, a core topic in AI alignment concerning how agents reason about themselves as part of the world they act in. His work on the Alignment Forum includes co-authored research on subjective naturalism in decision theory and puzzles related to wireheading and utility functions for embedded agents.

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