Darko Stojilović

Darko is a DPhil researcher in Experimental Psychology, supervised by Robert Hepach and Joanna Demaree-Cotton, and funded by the Clarendon Fund and the Oxford Department of Experimental Psychology. 

His research investigates moral interactions between human agents and fully autonomous AI agents from a developmental perspective. By combining randomised controlled experiments with ecologically valid designs, he aims to trace the developmental trajectory of moral responsibility, and predict the potential shifts in moral reasoning and social norms resulting from extended interaction with AI.

He is an MSc graduate from UCL’s Experimental Psychology department, where he studied with the support of the Chevening Scholarship. His work has been published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Collabra: Psychology, and Nature: Scientific Data. He has presented at several international conferences, including CogSci24 (where he gave a talk on “Are Autonomous Vehicles Blamed Differently?”), the 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science, and the AI UK 23 conference.

Darko is committed to making science more accessible to the public and has published more than 20 articles in popular science magazines and media outlets (e.g., see his article The Dark History of Statistics, p. 48). Before beginning his DPhil, he led high-stakes research projects as a Senior Research Consultant. For a detailed biography, visit: darkostojilovic.com