Sean 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.

Michael Barnes participated in ChatRegs23: AI Policy Workshop, on 19 July 2023. This workshop, organized by Bec Johnson of the University of Sydney, aimed to bring together a wide range of people researching the risks and ethical impacts of AI, as well as those working on how we can responsibly adopt these technologies into Australia.

Michael Barnes gave a presentation for the Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) Annual Conference. 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.

Michael Barnes (along with Megan Hyska, Northwestern University) gave a Tutorial Presentation at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) on 14 June 2023, in Chicago, IL, USA. The presentation was titled ‘Theories of Propaganda and New Technology: Applications and Interventions,’ and—in the spirit of the aims of FAccT Tutorials—aimed to foster dialogue between disciplines.

The Philosophy of Online Communication Workshop was held at ANU on 17 May 2023. The event, sponsored by the MINT Lab, was organized by Michael Barnes and involved five presentations on philosophical issues raised by online communication.