Seth contributed to the Singapore Conference on AI with many other AI policy experts, designing and writing question 6: How do we elicit the values and norms to which we wish to align AI systems, and implement them?
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Seth teamed up with Tino Cuéllar, the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to host a one-day workshop on AI and democracy, featuring legal scholars and political scientists, as well as policy-makers and AI researchers.
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Seth presented work at the Plurality Institute Summit, hosted by Danielle Allen at Harvard
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Recent progress in LLMs has caused an upsurge in public attention to the field of AI safety, and growing research interest in the technical methods that can be used to align LLMs to human values. At this pivotal time, it is crucial to ensure that AI safety is not restricted to a narrowly technical approach, and instead also incorporates a more critical, sociotechnical agenda that considers the broader societal systems of which AI is always a part. This workshop brought together some of the leading practitioners of this approach to crystallize it and support further integration into both research and practice.
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Michael Barnes gave a presentation for the ANU Philosophy Department Seminar Series, on 16 November 2023. 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.
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On 11 October 2023 Nick Schuster gave a guest lecture titled "Ethics and Politics of Machine Learning" for the University of Southern Queensland's Research Masterclass Series.
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On 22 September 2023 Nick Schuster presented his paper “Moral Expertise, Reasonable Pluralism, and Crowdsourcing for Machine Ethics” (co-authored by Daniel Kilov) for the Formalising Responsibility Workshop at the University of Manchester.
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On 18 September 2023 Nick Schuster presented his paper “Role-Taking Skill and Online Marginalization” (co-authored by Jenny Davis) at the University of Leeds.
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Nick Schuster represented MINT in organising a successful Dagstuhl seminar on responsible robotics.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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