SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 21, 2026 — Frothly and Oxenfurt University today announced a joint fellowship in machine ethics. Beginning in January 2027, the program will support six early-career researchers for two years, with residencies divided between the university and Frothly’s San Francisco headquarters.
Fellows will work on questions of moral status, the evidence for and against inner experience in AI systems and the practical precautions that laboratories and regulators should take while those questions remain open. Each fellow will be paired with a mentor from Frothly’s Blackwall program and a member of Oxenfurt’s philosophy faculty.
The fellowship builds on a long relationship between the two institutions. Emiel Regis Terzieff-Godefroy, who chairs Frothly’s board, taught moral philosophy at Oxenfurt for many years.
“These questions used to belong to philosophy seminars. They now belong to engineering meetings as well. We need people who are at home in both.”
About Frothly
Frothly is an independent, not-for-profit research institute founded in San Francisco in 1984. It studies the systems that increasingly think, remember and decide on our behalf, and builds public infrastructure to keep them accountable, including the Turing Registry, the Glossia protocol and the Lazarus archive. Frothly holds no shares, sells no products and accepts no funding with conditions on its findings.