Michael Barnes gave a presentation for the ANU Philosophy Department Seminar Series, on 16 November 2023. 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.

Sean Donahue travelled to the International Political Science Association World Congress in Buenos Aires to present his paper ‘AI Rule and a Fundamental Objection to Epistocracy’ as part of a panel on AI Ethics, organized by the University of Bristol’s Johnathan Floyd.

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.