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.
Read MoreSeth Lazar and lead author Nick Schuster published a paper on algorithmic recommendation in Philosophical Studies.
Read MoreSeth Lazar aand former White House policy advisor Alex Pascal, assess democracy’s prospects in a world with AGI, in Tech Policy Press
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreNick Schuster's paper "The Skill Model: A Dilemma for Virtue Ethics" was accepted for publication in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice on 2 March 2023.
Read MoreOne 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.
Read MoreSeth 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 MoreMINT Lab’s Seth Lazar and PhD student Jake Stone have published a new paper in Noûs on the site of predictive justice.
Read MoreSeth has published a new paper in the Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy on the connections between authority, legitimacy and the democratic duties of explanation.
Read MoreSeth joined Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor in investigating the limitations of techniques for model alignment. Read more here: https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/model-alignment-protects-against
Read MoreSeth pens an essay for the Knight First Amendment Institute on the growing need for communicative justice.
Read MoreMichael Barnes has published a new article in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Michael’s paper is entitled ‘Who Do You Speak For? And How? Online Abuse as Collective Subordinating Speech Acts’.
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