Dr. Karina Vold is a philosopher of cognitive science and artificial intelligence & an assistant professor at the University of Toronto's Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.

affiliations
> PI at the Periscope Research Lab
> AI2050 Early Career Fellow, Schmidt Sciences Foundation
> Research Lead at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society
> AI2050 Early Career Fellow, Schmidt Sciences Foundation
> Associate Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
> Graduate faculty at the University of Toronto's Department of Philosophy
> Faculty Fellow, Victoria College, University of Toronto
> Faculty Associate at the University of Toronto's Centre for Ethics

upcoming events> 28 February 2025 | 14th Berlin Winter School on Ethics of Neuroscience and AI, Humboldt University, Berlin> 16 April 2025 | Annual Fraud Symposium, Associate for Certified Fraud Examiners, Toronto, ON> 1-4 June 2025 | Plenary Session, Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Toronto, ON

recent writing & research> AI can uncover humanity's unknown unknowns
2025. With Hall, J. IAI News.
> Ethical Considerations in using Artificial Intelligence in Organ Transplantation.
2025. With Orlandi, M., Hall, J., Huynh, E., Katz, R., and Gross, J. Artificial Intelligence in Organ Transplantation. University of Toronto Press. Eds. M. Bhat and A. Sidhu.
> Finding consensus on trust in AI in healthcare: recommendations from a panel of international experts
2025. With Starke, G., Gille, F., Termine, A., et al. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
> The Hidden Risks of Neuralink.
2024. With Hall, J., and A. Kush. IAI News.
> Neuroprosthetics, Extended Cognition, and the Problem of Ownership.
2024. With X. Liao. In Neuro-ProsthEthics – Ethical Implications of Applied Situated Cognition. Springer, B., Beck, O. Friedrich, and J. Heinrichs (Eds.):1-20.
> Human-AI Cognitive Teaming: Using AI to Support State-level Decision Making on the Resort to Force.
2024. Australian Journal of International Affairs 78 (2): 229-236.
> Assessing AI Capabilities with Education Tests. In Education Research and Innovation
2023. With Staneva, M., Baret, A., Gobert, J., et al. AI and the Future of Skills: Methods and evaluation AI capabilities, Vol. 2. OECD.
> Your Prompt is My Command: Assessing the Human-Centred Generality of Multi-Modal Models.
2023. Journal of AI Research, 77, pp. 377-389. With W. Schellaert, J. Burden, F. Martinez-Plumed, P. Casares, B. Loe, R. Reichart, S. Ó hÉigeartaigh, A. Korhonen, and J. Hernández-Orallo.
> ChatGPT: Rebel without a cause.
2023. Blog post for Daily Nous: Philosophers on Next-Generation Large Language Models.
> Full list of articles on Google Scholar

recent media
> 2025 | Elle Canada Magazine on the use of generative AI for work
> 2025 | CBC News on social media being overrun by AI
> 2024 | Fashion Magazine on ethical issues around AI jewellery
> 2024 | The Guardian on generative AI and the value of higher education
> 2024 | Chinese Social Sciences Today on philosophy of virtual reality
> 2024 | UofT Magazine on learning from AI
> 2023 | MIT Tech Review on existential risks from AI
> 2023 | Global News on existential risks from AI

courses> Winter 2025 | HPS4011H: Graduate Seminar on Cognitive Technologies
> Winter 2023 | HPS340H: The Limits of Machine Intelligence
> Fall 2023 | HPS100H: Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science
> Fall 2023 | HPS4011H: Graduate Seminar on Cognitive Technologies

> contact me at [email protected]
> @karinavold
> speaking enquiries