Seth Lazar has been invited to give the Tanner Lectures in AI and Human Values, at Stanford, in January 2023. The lectures will be hosted by the Human-Centered AI Institute and the McCoy Centre for Ethics in Society.
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If you are considering a pivot to AI, and want to hear ideas for how to BOTH fulfil a real social need and do great philosophy, or just want to talk through your plans, feel free to reach out to MINT.
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Seth Lazar will be traveling to the US in October, giving talks in Princeton, Cornell Tech, and Cornell.
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Seth Lazar gave the second annual Mala and Solomon Kamm lecture in Ethics, at the Safra Center for Ethics, at Harvard University, on April 7, 2022. This prestigious lecture series was endowed by the brilliant philosopher Frances Kamm, professor at Rutgers University, in honour of her parents. It is a particular honour for Seth to give this lecture, due to the great debt his own work holds to Kamm's pathbreaking research in deontological ethics.
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Seth's heading to the US in April! As well as the Kamm lecture at Harvard, he'll be giving talks at CMU, Emory, and Princeton. More details to follow.
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In February Seth lectured into the University of Memphis, Tennessee, AI Ethics course, run by David Gray, and presented a paper on Legitimacy, Authority, and the Political Value of Explanations to the Rutgers Philosophy Colloquium.
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Seth Lazar's chapter on 'Power and AI: Nature and Justification' is forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of AI Governance.
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Seth Lazar and Christian Barry's co-authored paper, Supererogation and Optimisation, has been accepted for publication by the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. The paper explores principles that might underpin either the demand for altruistic efficiency, or the denial of any such demand.
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Seth Lazar has been made a Distinguished Research Fellow of the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and the Faculty of Philosophy. This honorary position is in recognition of the existing deep collaboration between Seth and the Oxford Institute, including through the PAIS consortium.
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Claire Benn and Seth Lazar ask what is wrong with online behavioural advertising and recommender systems, in this paper published in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
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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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