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Aydin Mohseni

Aydin Mohseni is an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Philosophy who studies AI safety, agency, alignment, and value learning. He studied interactive media and formal philosophy before completing a doctorate at UC Irvine in 2021 and holding research posts at Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania. With Travis LaCroix, he coauthored The Tragedy of the AI Commons in 2020, using evolutionary game theory to study cooperation in ethical AI development. In 2025, he and Alex John London released Learning the Value of Value Learning, which extends decision theory to changes in an agent’s values.

Now at
Carnegie Mellon University, Institute for Complex Social Dynamics and Center for Conceptual Research on Safe AI
Works
28
Citations
83
h-index
5

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 27 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2016

    Graduate study at Irvine

    In 2016, he is a first-year student in logic and philosophy of science at UC Irvine. Before doctoral study, he earns a bachelor of fine arts in interactive media at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, works in industry, and completes a master’s degree in logic, computation and methodology at Carnegie Mellon University.

  2. 2020

    Cooperation in AI development

    With Travis LaCroix, he releases The Tragedy of the AI Commons as a preprint in 2020. The paper uses evolutionary game theory to model incentives for cooperation in ethical AI development and examines conditions that can sustain cooperation.

  3. 2021–2022

    A doctorate and Pittsburgh fellowship

    In 2021, he completes a doctorate in UC Irvine’s Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, supervised by Simon Huttegger and Cailin O’Connor. From 2021 to 2022, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Philosophy of Science.

  4. 2022–2024

    Research fellow at Pennsylvania

    From 2022 to 2024, he works as a research fellow in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Philosophy.

  5. 2024

    Assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon

    In 2024, he joins Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Philosophy as an assistant professor.

  6. 2025

    A theorem for value learning

    In November 2025, he and Alex John London release the preprint Learning the Value of Value Learning. Their work extends the Jeffrey–Bolker decision framework to model changes in values and proves a theorem about the value of refining those values.

  7. As of October 2026

    AI safety at Carnegie Mellon

    As of October 2026, he is an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Philosophy, studying AI safety, agency, alignment, and value learning. He is a member of the Institute for Complex Social Dynamics and the center for Conceptual Research on Safe AI.

Career

  1. Since 2024Carnegie Mellon UniversityAssistant Professor
  2. NowInstitute for Complex Social DynamicsMember
  3. NowCenter for Conceptual Research on Safe AIMember
  4. 2022–2024University of PennsylvaniaResearch Fellow
  5. 2021–2022University of PittsburghPostdoctoral Fellow

Education

  1. 2021University of California, IrvinePhD
  2. Minneapolis College of Art and DesignBFA in Interactive Media
  3. Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster's Degree in Logic, Computation and Methodology

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Mohseni to speak in Munich | School of Social Sciences socsci.uci.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  2. Mohseni named one of two Outstanding Scholar award recipients in social sciences | School of Social Sciences socsci.uci.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  3. [2006.05203] The Tragedy of the AI Commons arxiv.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  4. Alumni | LPS lps.uci.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  5. Aydin Mohseni – Scientific Philosopher aydinmohseni.com. Checked 27 October 2026.
  6. Department of Philosophy < Carnegie Mellon University coursecatalog.web.cmu.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  7. [2511.17714] Learning the Value of Value Learning arxiv.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  8. Aydin Mohseni - Department of Philosophy - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University cmu.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.