Marks Received for Thesis
Receiving an 80/100 on my master’s thesis at Edinburgh — what distinction means at the graduate level, the feedback I received, and what it taught me about the difference between completion and contribution.
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7 posts tagged "thesis"
Year 2 Begins
Reflections on beginning the second year of the AI Ethics programme, with fewer courses but the added challenge of a full research dissertation.
Thesis Completion & Submission
Submitting my MSc thesis proposing ETHICA — a poly-ethical decision-making framework that repositions AI ethics from compliance to competency — and reflecting on whether to pursue a PhD.
Thesis Development: Advisor Meeting #2
Lessons from my second thesis advisor meeting — on academic writing, proportionate argumentation, and the risk of oversimplifying normative ethical theory.
A New Direction
Announcing a change in thesis direction, shifting from a deontological rules-and-tools approach to responsible AI toward a virtue ethics framework that treats ethics as a skillset.
Thesis Development: Advisor Meeting #1
My first thesis advisor meeting at Edinburgh — adopting a poly-ethical approach, the MVP strategy for academic work, and the birth of the Ethical Debugging concept.
Ethics as a Skillset: An Alternative Approach to Responsible AI
A thesis proposal for shifting responsible AI from a deontological rules-based approach to a virtue ethics framework that cultivates ethics as a skillset over time.