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Seth wrote an article in Aeon to explain the suite of ethical issues being raised by AI agents built out of generative foundation models (Generative Agents). The essay explores the strengths and weaknesses of methods for aligning LLMs to human values, as well as the prospective societal impacts of Generative Agents from AI companions, to Attention Guardians, to universal intermediaries.
Read MoreIn this seminar Jen Semler presents her work examining why delegating moral decisions to AI systems is problematic, even when these systems can make reliable judgements.
Read MoreOn 23 March 2024 Nick Schuster presented his paper “Role-Taking Skill and Online Marginalization” (co-authored by Jenny Davis) at the American Philosophical Association's 2024 Pacific Division Meeting in Portland, Oregon.
Read MoreOur special issue of Philosophical Studies on Normative Theory and AI is now live. A couple more papers remain to come, but in the meantime you can find eight new papers on AI and normative theory here:
Read MoreSeth Lazar and lead author Nick Schuster published a paper on algorithmic recommendation in Philosophical Studies.
Read MoreOn 18 September 2023 Nick Schuster presented his paper “Role-Taking Skill and Online Marginalization” (co-authored by Jenny Davis) at the University of Leeds.
Read MoreSeth shares some lessons from a conversation with a rogue AI about what imbues humans with moral worth.
Read MoreOn 11 April 2023 Nick Schuster presented his paper "Moral Expertise and Crowdsourcing for Machine Ethics" (co-authored by Daniel Kilov) for the Computing Ethics Group at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Read MoreSeth joined a group of European scholars to submit an application to the Schloss Dagstuhl for a five day seminar titled ‘Roadmap for Responsible Robotics’. This is a prestigious and competitive application process (success rate about 1/3), and our application was just approved!
Read MoreBen Robinson and Antonio Esposito win scholarships for their work on Moral Skill and Ethics for AI respectively.
Read MoreSeth Lazar joined the Templeton World Charity Foundation Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute as faculty, giving talks on the moral and political epistemology of data and AI, and the Value of Explanations.
Read MoreClaire Benn and Seth Lazar recorded an interview with Rashna Farrukh for the Philosopher’s Zone podcast on Radio National. The theme: moral skill and artificial intelligence. Does the automation of moral labour threaten to diminish our capacity for moral judgment, much as automation in other areas has negatively impacted human skill?
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