At VALIANT, I work at the intersection of AI and PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). Specifically, I focus on how AI is reshaping liberal institutions and practices, particularly markets, democracy, and public justification. The transition to the AI economy is putting pressure on these institutions, and my work aims to renew them for the age of AI.
For instance, my recent paper (“Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneurial Discovery, and Embodied Tacit Knowledge”) takes up a question now under active debate: whether AI systems can perform the epistemic functions of markets. The paper argues that at least one function, entrepreneurial discovery, resists replication because it depends on embodied, historically situated judgment rather than computation alone.