Luke Thorburn is a Ph.D. candidate in Safe & Trusted AI at King’s College London. His core research interests lie at the intersection of AI, epistemology, and conflict. He tries to understand how technology can be used to reduce conflict risks and improve collective decision-making, as well as to better understand the extent to which these goals are important. He co-authors the Understanding Recommenders project at the Center for Human-Compatible AI at University of California, Berkeley, has worked with Ofcom on the evaluation of recommender systems, and contributed to the Prefiguration Working Group for the International Observatory on Information and Democracy. His background is in probability and statistics.