MINT is teaming up with the HUMANE.AI EU project, represented by PhD student Jonne Maas, to support a workshop on political philosophy and AI, to take place at Kioloa Coastal Campus in June 2024.
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MINT is teaming up with colleagues in the US to edit a special section of the Journal of Responsible Computing on Barocas, Hardt and Narayanan’s book on Fair Machine Learning: Limitations and Opportunities.
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Sean Donahue organized the Legitimacy Beyond the State workshop. The aim of the workshop was to advance philosophical research on legitimacy as a normative concept that can apply to non-profit organizations, international corporations, interest groups, and other non-state institutions.
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MINT, 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.
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Michael 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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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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