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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.
Read MoreMINT Lab’s Seth Lazar and PhD student Jake Stone have published a new paper in Noûs on the site of predictive justice.
Read MoreSeth has published a new paper in the Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy on the connections between authority, legitimacy and the democratic duties of explanation.
Read MoreSeth Lazar’s Tanner lectures on AI and Human Values are now forthcoming, alongside commentaries by Renée Jorgensen, Marion Fourcade, Arvind Narayanan and Joshua Cohen and a reply by Seth, with Oxford University Press (actually the USA one, not the UK one as pictures).
Read MoreSeth teamed up with Tino Cuéllar, the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to host a one-day workshop on AI and democracy, featuring legal scholars and political scientists, as well as policy-makers and AI researchers.
Read MoreSeth presented work at the Plurality Institute Summit, hosted by Danielle Allen at Harvard
Read MoreMichael 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.
Read MoreSeth pens an essay for the Knight First Amendment Institute on the growing need for communicative justice.
Read MoreSeth features on a new podcast episode about the potential risks of AI with Philosophy Bites.
Read MoreSeth Lazar joins the GETTING-Plurality group at Harvard University.
Read MoreSean 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.
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