I just checked your history and realized that I read all of your posts before! I found them when I was reading everything I could find about this MSt a couple of months ago.
Your explanation about
your own grading on the DSAR and the comments you received were super interesting to read, so thanks a lot for the public service you did!
Thanks for providing details about yourself, sounds like you have quite some work experience, which seems to fit very well with this MSt cohorts, many of which, as you know, are older than the average master student. So that might also be one of your advantages, other than the stellar academics you mentioned in your DSAR post.
Your interests steer definitely on the heavier side, but arguably are super worthwhile and purpose-driven, so it's great to hear that you seem to have well internally-developed interests. Any particular reason you got engaged in these specific topics?
As for me, I'm also a mature student. But my path is a bit unconventional. I used to work in various industries, the last being tech. Then I moved from Europe to Taiwan to do my undergrad degree in something you could call technology management, I'm about to finish it this semester. I was on a special customized study path, so almost half of my courses ended up being either master or PhD-level. I took a graduate course about Grief as understood from a philosophical and clinical perspective, which is somewhat related to your end-of-life research. That was fascinating.
But my general interests within this course relate more to the units about AI, Data Ethics and neuroethics. I've been following the AI field for almost 15 years and was super positively surprised to see that academia started to finally offer programs about AI ethics.
Have you applied to any other programs?