The Knight First Amendment Institute invites submissions for its spring 2025 symposium, “Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms.”
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In this piece for Tech Policy Press, Anton Leicht argues that future AI progress might not proceed linearly and we should prepare for potential plateaus and sudden leaps in capability. Leicht cautions against complacency during slowdowns and advocates for focusing on building capacities to navigate future uncertainty in AI development.
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Seth presented a tutorial on the rise of Language Model Agents at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), a computer science conference with a cross-disciplinary focus that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.
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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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Seth has completed a book chapter forthcoming with MIT Press. The book is Collaborative Intelligence: How Humans and AI are Transforming our World, edited by Arathi Sethumadhavan and Mira Lane.
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Seth was invited to deliver the Scholl Lecture at Purdue University on 3 April. Seth’s presentation focused on how we should currently respond to the kind of catastrophic risks posed by AI systems, which often dominate contemporary discourse in the normative philosophy of computing.
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MINT is teaming up with the HUMANE.AI EU project, represented by PhD student Jonne Maas, to support a workshop on political philosophy and AI, to take place at Kioloa Coastal Campus in June 2024.
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MINT is teaming up with colleagues in the US to edit a special section of the Journal of Responsible Computing on Barocas, Hardt and Narayanan’s book on Fair Machine Learning: Limitations and Opportunities.
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Seth Lazar aand former White House policy advisor Alex Pascal, assess democracy’s prospects in a world with AGI, in Tech Policy Press
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The headline wasn’t representative, but this was a fun piece to write about the excellent White House OMB memo about AI use within government. Read the whole thing (not the misleading headline) here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/28/united-states-artificial-intelligence-eu-ai-washington#comments
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One of the biggest tech policy debates today is about the future of AI, especially foundation models and generative AI. Should open AI models be restricted? This question is central to several policy efforts like the EU AI Act and the U.S. Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI.
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Sean Donahue organized the Legitimacy Beyond the State workshop. The aim of the workshop was to advance philosophical research on legitimacy as a normative concept that can apply to non-profit organizations, international corporations, interest groups, and other non-state institutions.
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