In this essay Seth develops a model of algorithmically-mediated social relations through the concept of the "Algorithmic City," examining how this new form of intermediary power challenges traditional theories in political philosophy.
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Prof. Lazar will lead efforts to address AI's impact on democracy during a 2024-2025 tenure as a senior AI Advisor at the Knight Institute.
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Seth was invited on the Generally Intelligent podcast to discuss issues of power, legitimacy, and the political philosophy of AI.
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Seth has completed a book chapter forthcoming with MIT Press. The book is Collaborative Intelligence: How Humans and AI are Transforming our World, edited by Arathi Sethumadhavan and Mira Lane.
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MINT is teaming up with the HUMANE.AI EU project, represented by PhD student Jonne Maas, to support a workshop on political philosophy and AI, to take place at Kioloa Coastal Campus in June 2024.
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MINT is teaming up with colleagues in the US to edit a special section of the Journal of Responsible Computing on Barocas, Hardt and Narayanan’s book on Fair Machine Learning: Limitations and Opportunities.
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Seth Lazar aand former White House policy advisor Alex Pascal, assess democracy’s prospects in a world with AGI, in Tech Policy Press
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The headline wasn’t representative, but this was a fun piece to write about the excellent White House OMB memo about AI use within government. Read the whole thing (not the misleading headline) here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/28/united-states-artificial-intelligence-eu-ai-washington#comments
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One of the biggest tech policy debates today is about the future of AI, especially foundation models and generative AI. Should open AI models be restricted? This question is central to several policy efforts like the EU AI Act and the U.S. Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI.
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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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