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This workshop aims to bring together the best philosophical work on normative questions raised by computing, and in addition to identify and connect early career scholars working on these questions. It will feature papers that use the tools of analytical philosophy to frame and address normative questions raised by computing and computational systems.
Read MoreSeth presented a tutorial on the rise of Language Model Agents at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), a computer science conference with a cross-disciplinary focus that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.
Read MoreSeth was invited on the The Gradient podcast to discuss the risks, challenges and benefits of developing publicly-minded AI, as well as the philosophical challenges those questions pose.
Read MoreSeth was invited on the Generally Intelligent podcast to discuss issues of power, legitimacy, and the political philosophy of AI.
Read MoreMichael Barnes presented at the Second Annual Penn-Georgetown Digital Ethics Workshop. The presentation (co-authored with Megan Hyska, Northwestern University) was titled “Interrogating Collective Authenticity as a Norm for Online Speech,” and it offers a critique of (relatively) new forms of content moderation on major social media platforms.
Read MoreHow should we respond to those who aim at building a technology that they acknowledge could be catastrophic? How seriously should we take the societal-scale risks of advanced AI? And, when resources and attention are limited, how should we weigh acting to reduce those risks against targeting more robustly predictable risks from AI systems?
Read MoreTogether with Aaron Snoswell, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, and Daniel Kilov, Seth Lazar has been awarded USD50,000 to support work on developing a “moral conscience” for AI agents. The grant will start in April 2024, and run for 9-10 months.
Read MoreOur special issue of Philosophical Studies on Normative Theory and AI is now live. A couple more papers remain to come, but in the meantime you can find eight new papers on AI and normative theory here:
Read MoreMINT, together with ADM+S, held a stellar workshop on normative philosophy of computing at the Kioloa Coastal Campus, with papers from Jeff Howard, Rachel Sterken and Eliot Michaelson, Jenny Judge, Sina Fazelpour, Sarita Rosenstock, Luise Mueller, Megan Hyska and Raphael Milliere.
Read MoreMichael Barnes presented at the Oxford-Berlin Colloquium on Normative Philosophy of Computing. The presentation (co-authored with Megan Hyska, Northwestern University) was titled “Interrogating Collective Authenticity as a Norm for Online Speech,” and it offers a critique of (relatively) new forms of content moderation on major social media platforms.
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