Seth features on a new podcast episode about the risks of AI by Science Vs.
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Michael Barnes was a panellist at a session on AI Ethics at the Clayton-Utz Government In-House Counsel Day. The session, titled “Navigating the Ethics of AI in Public Governance,” was moderated by Professor Genevieve Bell (Director of the School of Cybernetics, ANU), and included Dr Will Bateman (College of Law, ANU), and Dr Jenny L. Davis (School of Sociology at the ANU).
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Josh 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.
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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.
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Seth will be giving several talks at the University of Oxford and the University of Geneva in January and February.
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Scholars 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.
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Brian 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.
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This 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.
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Michael 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’.
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ACM 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…
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Seth 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!
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