Our Work
On 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 MoreScholars from around the world gathered for the first official Philosophy, AI, and Society (PAIS) Workshop at Stanford University on January 27th and 28th. The program featured 24 presentations on a wide variety of topics including online privacy, speech muffling on digital platforms, fairness metrics for algorithms, the impact of video deepfakes on evidence, moral self-correction in large langue models, the ethics of future porn, and many more.
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 MoreThis upcoming PAIS workshop—sponsored by the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford and the Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory Lab and HMI project at ANU—seeks to bring together philosophers addressing important normative questions about the ongoing impact of artificial intelligence and related applications of digital technologies on society.
Read MoreMichael Barnes has published a new article in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, as part of a special issue on Feminism, Social Justice, and Artificial Intelligence. Michael’s paper is entitled ‘Online Extremism, AI, and (Human) Content Moderation’.
Read MoreACM FAccT happening June 21-24, MINTies and friends have played a big role in bringing it together. All now just hoping that neither covid nor WWIII gets in the way…
Read MoreSeth joined a group of European scholars to submit an application to the Schloss Dagstuhl for a five day seminar titled ‘Roadmap for Responsible Robotics’. This is a prestigious and competitive application process (success rate about 1/3), and our application was just approved!
Read MoreSeth's heading to the US in April! As well as the Kamm lecture at Harvard, he'll be giving talks at CMU, Emory, and Princeton. More details to follow.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreSeth Lazar and Christian Barry's co-authored paper, Supererogation and Optimisation, has been accepted for publication by the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. The paper explores principles that might underpin either the demand for altruistic efficiency, or the denial of any such demand.
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