(Last updated: May 20th, 2025)

I am pursuing a PhD in philosophy under the supervision of Professor Oscar Horta, with the financial support of Macroscopic Ventures [1]. I am researching topics related to cause prioritization in animal advocacy, primarily by looking at how it should be affected by considerations that have to do with longtermism and cluelessness.  While most of my current work is in the form of drafts not yet submitted to academic journals, you can find snippets of it posted on the Effective Altruism Forum.

I previously was the Community Director of Effective Altruism France and that of Effective Altruism Cambridge, a Research Fellow at Existential Risk Alliance, and an Events and Community Associate at the Center on Long-Term Risk. I've also done some independent research, funded by various organizations (see my LinkedIn profile for more details). In my younger years, I was an education trainer and a teenage summer camp director.

I have completed a Bachelor's degree in Geography (at Université Savoie Mont Blanc) and a Master's in Moral Philosophy (at Université Paris-Est Créteil).

Topics I've researched outside of academia in the past include:
- long-term selection effects on moral preferences and the implications for improving the long-term future;
- governance interventions to reduce risks of malevolent influence over AI systems;
- decision-theoretic problems in multi-agent settings and their implications for AGI conflict and cooperative AI.

[1] The funding I am currently working with is limited, and I would like to avoid relying on a single donor. If you might be interested in supporting my work now or in the future, please reach out at buhler[dot]jim94[at]gmail.com.