John Dorsch, Ph.D.

John Dorsch is a postdoctoral researcher in AI ethics and the philosophy of cognitive science at the Czech Academy of Sciences. He works on how technologies—from recommender systems to emerging AI models—shape the ways we think, reason, and feel confident in our beliefs. His broader research looks at how these shifts affect democratic discourse, our responsibilities to each other, and what it might one day mean for machines to have minds of their own.John earned his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where he studied the origins of self-knowledge and metacognition.

Before turning to philosophy full-time, he worked for several years in the tech industry as a programmer and systems engineer, which still informs his approach to AI and ethics.He has taught courses in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, logic, medical ethics, and technology ethics, and has been nominated multiple times for “Teacher of the Year.” When not writing about metacognition and AI, he enjoys thinking about how education fosters better reasoning—and occasionally translating things into German.