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New Draft: Seth Lazar and Jake Stone 'On the Site of Predictive Justice'

We argue that, as well as more obvious concerns about the downstream effects of ML-based decision-making, there can be moral grounds for the criticism of these predictions themselves. We introduce and defend a theory of predictive justice, according to which differential model performance for systematically disadvantaged groups can be grounds for moral criticism of the model, independently of its downstream effects. As well as helping resolve some urgent disputes around algorithmic fairness, this theory points the way to a novel dimension of epistemic ethics, related to the recently discussed category of doxastic wrong.

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Mala and Solomon Kamm Lecture in Ethics, Harvard University (Video)

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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March Talks

In March, Seth is teaching into the University of Oxford's Masters program in practical ethics, as well as delivering a lecture into the ethics module of the Next Generation AI Symposium. He will also be presenting at the Schwarz Reisman Institute's weekly seminar.

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February Talks

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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