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Hi!

I’m Ricky, a researcher and Hecht-Levi Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.

I study the social micropractices of AI research--the tiny, widespread conventions shaping development choices at a level most engineers aren’t paying attention to.

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AI development isn’t just a series of technical solutions. It’s embedded in social institutions, language, and practices that quietly constrain what gets built, how it gets evaluated, and what counts as a “good enough” result. I help make those constraints visible and tractable.

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My philosophical research spans AI ethics, bioethics, and political philosophy. I’ve written on how institutions fragment ethical accountability, how language impoverishes our ability to reason about value, and how social dynamics shape AI from development through deployment.

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In my free time, I love science fiction, board games, jazz, improv, art, and playing, watching, and coaching basketball.​ I also created The SlamBall Card Game.

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