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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Seth contributed to the Singapore Conference on AI with many other AI policy experts, designing and writing question 6: How do we elicit the values and norms to which we wish to align AI systems, and implement them?
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Seth teamed up with Tino Cuéllar, the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to host a one-day workshop on AI and democracy, featuring legal scholars and political scientists, as well as policy-makers and AI researchers.
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Seth pens an essay for the Knight First Amendment Institute on the growing need for communicative justice.
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Seth Lazar joins the GETTING-Plurality group at Harvard University.
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With former acting White House Office of Science and Technology Policy director, Alondra Nelson, Seth argued against a narrow technical approach to AI safety, calling instead for more work to be done on sociotechnical AI safety, that situates the risks posed by AI as a technical system in the context of the broader sociotechnical systems of which they are part.
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Seth teams up with AI scientists to reply to the statement on the existential risk posed by AI for humans, suggesting that we can best avoid existential risk from AI by building robust research communities that work to mitigate better-understood risks from concrete AI systems.
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Seth Lazar invited to contribute to the ACOLA Rapid Research report on Large Language Models.
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Seth Lazar was a co-author on a report by a study committee of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, Fostering Computing Research: Foundations and Practices. This report was commissioned by the NSF and is to be presented to the US congress.
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World Economic Forum's Quantum Computing Governance Principles programme brings together a global multi-stakeholder community of experts from across public sector, private sector, academia and civil society to formulate principles and create a broader ethical framework for responsible and purpose-driven design and adoption of quantum computing technologies to drive positive outcomes for society.
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