In a forthcoming essay in Philosophy & Public Affairs, based on his 2023 Stanford Tanner Lectures, Seth develops a model of algorithmically-mediated social relations through the concept of the "Algorithmic City," examining how this new form of intermediary power challenges traditional theories in political philosophy.
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The AIH Lab and Hong Kong Ethics Lab co-hosted "The Philosophy of AI: Themes from Seth Lazar" workshop at HKU on January 17.
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On December 14 Seth Lazar gave a keynote talk to the NeurIPS workshop on Pluralistic Alignment.
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Seth has been invited to give first Annual Arthur & Barbara Gianelli Lecture on The Philosophy of Science at St John’s University, in April 2025.
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On December 14 Seth Lazar delivered a keynote talk on evaluating the ethical competence of LLMs to the NeurIPS Algorithmic Fairness through the Lens of Metrics and Evaluation workshop
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Professor Seth Lazar will be a keynote speaker at the inaugural Australian AI Safety Forum 2024, joining other leading experts to discuss critical challenges in ensuring the safe development of artificial intelligence.
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In this paper, Seth Lazar and Lorenzo Manuali argue that that LLMs should not be used for formal democratic decision-making, but that they can be put to good use in strengthening the informal public sphere: the arena that mediates between democratic governments and the polities that they serve, in which political communities seek information, form civic publics, and hold their leaders to account.
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On December 9 Seth gave a talk entitled 'Evaluating LLM Ethical Competence' at the HKU workshop on Linguistic and Cognitive Capacities of LLMs.
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From December 1, 2024, to February 7, 2025 Seth will be undertaking a visting fellowship with the University of Hong Kong.
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In this essay Seth develops a democratic egalitarian theory of communicative justice to guide the governance of the digital public sphere.
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The UK government is considering the use of Large Language Models to summarise and analyse submissions during public consultations. Seth weighs in on the considerations behind such a suggestion for the Guardian.
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