Weiming Sheng holding a copy of Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited
(me on the right)

Weiming Sheng

Hi! I’m Wei. I’m a PhD student at Columbia, where I do philosophy of AI. I am fortunate to be advised by John Morrison.

This summer I am working on a project on agentic moral alignment with Elizaveta Tennant.

Publications

Fictionalism about Personas: Folk Psychology as an Interpretability Strategy
ICML Workshop, 2026 · Poster
A fictionalist account of LLM mentality.
Building a Correct-by-Design Lakehouse for Humans and Agents
VLDB Workshop, 2026
Typed table contracts, Git-like data versioning, and transactional pipeline execution that make illegal states unrepresentable.