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Michael Barnes participated in ChatRegs23: AI Policy Workshop, on 19 July 2023. This workshop, organized by Bec Johnson of the University of Sydney, aimed to bring together a wide range of people researching the risks and ethical impacts of AI, as well as those working on how we can responsibly adopt these technologies into Australia.
Read MoreMichael Barnes gave a presentation for the Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) Annual Conference. The talk, titled ‘Speech Acts on Social Media: Algorithms, Amplifiers, and Affordances,’ is part of a larger project that aims to update speech act theory for online communication, and then apply it to help make sense of various afflictions of our online lives.
Read MoreMichael Barnes (along with Megan Hyska, Northwestern University) gave a Tutorial Presentation at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) on 14 June 2023, in Chicago, IL, USA. The presentation was titled ‘Theories of Propaganda and New Technology: Applications and Interventions,’ and—in the spirit of the aims of FAccT Tutorials—aimed to foster dialogue between disciplines.
Read MoreThe Philosophy of Online Communication Workshop was held at ANU on 17 May 2023. The event, sponsored by the MINT Lab, was organized by Michael Barnes and involved five presentations on philosophical issues raised by online communication.
Read MoreMichael Barnes gave a presentation at the American Philosophical Association (APA) Pacific Division meeting. The invited talk was as part of the panel: New Work on Propaganda, and included talks by Megan Hyska (Northwestern University), and Cory Wimberly (University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley).
Read MoreJosh Glancy of the Sunday Times has written an in-depth profile on Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, in which he discusses the ethical issues raised by AI with members of the institute led by John Tasioulas, including a brief quote from Seth.
Read MoreOn January 26th and 27th, Professor Seth Lazar gave the Tanner Lectures on AI and Human Values, at Stanford University. The event was co-hosted by Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society.
Read MoreSeth will be giving several talks at the University of Oxford and the University of Geneva in January and February.
Read MoreBrian Hedden of the ANU and Katie Creel of Northeastern University organized a workshop on Fairness and Machine Learning: Limitations and Opportunities on January 23rd at Stanford University. Fairness and Machine Learning is co-authored by Solon Barocas, Moritz Hardt, Arvind Narayanan.
Read MoreSeth 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.
Read MoreSeth Lazar will be traveling to the US in October, giving talks in Princeton, Cornell Tech, and Cornell.
Read MoreWell done to Jake Stone for passing his Thesis Proposal Review! He’s working on ‘A Theory of Justice for Algorithmic Systems’, and it’s going to smash. Did a great job crossing this important hurdle. Well done Jake!
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