S. Matthew Liao

Just published!

AI regulation is a maze. Let’s add a map! Alexander Haykel, Katherine Cheung, Taylor Matalon and I introduce the 5W1H framework—a simple lens to decode AI policies:

Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fun attending Dana Foundation’s 75th Anniversary Celebration!

Reunions was a blast! Fun to catch up with classmates, and Bono made a surprise appearance!

Great to see Simona Tiribelli in NYC and to learn about all her exciting work in AI ethics!

Many congratulations to the 2025 graduates!

Thoughtful discussions about AI and healthcare at Saint Louis University organized by Jeffrey Bishop!

Looking forward to delivering the Sprague and Taylor Lecture at Brooklyn College this Thursday! I'll be talking about privacy. Do feel free to come along if you are in the area! www.brooklyn.edu/event/annual...

Thanks to everyone who came to the NYU Philosophical Bioethics Workshop and made it such a success!

NYU Center for Bioethics 5th Annual Philosophical Bioethics Workshop in progress!

Do come to the NYU Center for Bioethics 5th Annual Philosophical Bioethics Workshop this Friday and Saturday!

April 25–26, 2025 | NYU Deutsches Haus | Free to attend

RSVP: nyubioe.link/PBW5

Another successful APA full of stimulating conversations with friends over good meals!

Happy Holidays from NYU Center for Bioethics!

Wibke and I met in Bangkok 30 years ago, so it’s very nice to be back! I got a chance to visit our old haunt, do some sightseeing, give a talk, be on a panel, catch up with basketball buddy Eric Hodges, and eat lots of delicious food! Thanks to Wibool Piyawattanametha for the opportunity!

Off to Bangkok!

See you next time, Heidelberg!

Stimulating discussion about the science, philosophy, and ethics of brain organoids! Many thanks to Nora Heinzelmann for inciting me to be on this panel at Heidelberg University, Germany!

New paper, “When to Save the Baby: A Fundamental Conditions Approach,” co-written with former NYU Center for Bioethics MA students Jordan Liebman and Corine Astroth now out in Pace Law Review!

You can download the paper here: digitalcommons.pace.edu/plr/vol45/is...

Many thanks to Jason T. Eberl for inviting me to give a keynote at the “ Bridging Disparities in Healthcare Using AI” Symposium at Saint Louis University!

Captivating conversation between Beth Macy, author of Dopesick, and Perri Peltz, award-winning filmmaker and journalist, about the opioid crisis in America today!

Off to Shanghai and Korea!

You can watch me downsize in the @arte documentary "Sollten wir kleiner sein?"! youtu.be/QBsFP9-n--c?...

Many congratulations to the 2024 graduates!

The 4th annual NYU Philosophical Bioethics Workshop is in the books! Many thanks to all the speakers and chairs for coming to share their insights and expertise, and a big thanks to our admin team, Amber Celedonio and Sarah Muskovitz for helping to make this event such a success!

Very honored to be part of a panel on Collaboration in the Humanities and the Sciences at the annnual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies tomorrow!

Really great to catch up with Sophie Bertaud, former NYU Center for Bioethics MA student, who is a pediatrician and is currently doing a DPhil at Oxford!

Eclipse!

Off to give the paper that former NYU Center for Bioethics MA students Jordan Liebman, Corine Astroth, and I wrote entitled “When should the baby live: A Fundamental Conditions Approach” at the Pace Law Symposium on “Bioethics after Dobbs”!

Many thanks to Johann Frick for a stimulating talk on how population ethics can shed light on moral philosophy!

Fun time at Pacific APA!

Very pleased that the paper on Limited Aggregation that James Edgar Lim and I wrote has just been published in Utilitas as Open Access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...