Tse Yip Fai
PhD Candidate
Profile
Fai holds bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry, and in Banking and Finance. He worked in various industries, such as financial securities, garment factory management, R&D in a Chinese state-owned technology company, and an animal charity. Fai made a return to academia four years ago, where he joined Professor Peter Singer at Princeton as his research assistant and an AI ethics researcher, focusing on AI’s impact on animals, working under a grant from Princeton University Center for Human Values. He was later promoted to Professor Peter Singer’s research associate.
After completion of the Princeton-funded research, he became the (sole) organizer and manager for Professor Peter Singer’s 2024 speaking tour in China, as well as serving as his translator and advisor on academic issues in China. He has also carried out research in the fields of animal welfare advocacy and effective altruism. And he was a 2021 Foresight Fellow in Animal Ethics for Artificial Intelligence. Fai’s publications include “AI ethics: the case for including animals”, a pioneering paper co-authored with Peter Singer and published in AI and Ethics, a leading peer-reviewed journal in the field of AI Ethics.
Fai’s PhD research topic is “The future of AI, medical research, and animals”. His other research interests include general topics on AI ethics, AI alignment, technology ethics, history of technology, animal ethics, population ethics problems within animal ethics, and moral uncertainty. (for Fai, all of these connect together)