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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As AI continues to permeate every aspect of our society, the evolution of adversarial machine learning from a niche academic field to a critical component of global cyber security underscores the significance of this research.
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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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Seth was invited on the The Gradient podcast to discuss the risks, challenges and benefits of developing publicly-minded AI, as well as the philosophical challenges those questions pose.
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Michael Barnes presented at the Second Annual Penn-Georgetown Digital Ethics Workshop. The presentation (co-authored with Megan Hyska, Northwestern University) was titled “Interrogating Collective Authenticity as a Norm for Online Speech,” and it offers a critique of (relatively) new forms of content moderation on major social media platforms.
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On 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.
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Nick 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.
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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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MINT Lab’s Seth Lazar and PhD student Jake Stone have published a new paper in Noûs on the site of predictive justice.
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Seth has published a new paper in the Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy on the connections between authority, legitimacy and the democratic duties of explanation.
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Michael Barnes presented at the Oxford-Berlin Colloquium on Normative Philosophy of Computing. The presentation (co-authored with Megan Hyska, Northwestern University) was titled “Interrogating Collective Authenticity as a Norm for Online Speech,” and it offers a critique of (relatively) new forms of content moderation on major social media platforms.
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Michael Barnes is part of a team that receives HMI Computing for Social Good Seed Research Grant. The project, titled ‘Privacy Preserving Perception in Robotics,’ seeks to ensure that robots that enter public spaces are trained to avoid capturing sensitive information.
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