If you are considering a pivot to AI, and want to hear ideas for how to BOTH fulfil a real social need and do great philosophy, or just want to talk through your plans, feel free to reach out to MINT.
Read MoreSeth Lazar will be traveling to the US in October, giving talks in Princeton, Cornell Tech, and Cornell.
Read MoreCollection of FAccT Keynotes and Panels
Read MorePanel on Algorithmic Governance of the Public Sphere at FAccT, Seoul 2022
Read MoreThis panel discussion, curated and chaired by Seth Lazar, featured insights from Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Min Kyung Lee, Wilneida Negrón, and Rida Qadri. Watch the whole session here:
Read MoreWelcome to FAccT video by the General Chairs
Read MoreNew draft ready on legitimacy, authority and the political value of explanations, due to be my keynote for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy workshop, Tucson October 2022
Read MoreWe argue that, as well as more obvious concerns about the downstream effects of ML-based decision-making, there can be moral grounds for the criticism of these predictions themselves. We introduce and defend a theory of predictive justice, according to which differential model performance for systematically disadvantaged groups can be grounds for moral criticism of the model, independently of its downstream effects. As well as helping resolve some urgent disputes around algorithmic fairness, this theory points the way to a novel dimension of epistemic ethics, related to the recently discussed category of doxastic wrong.
Read MoreSeth Lazar was a co-author on a report by a study committee of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, Fostering Computing Research: Foundations and Practices. This report was commissioned by the NSF and is to be presented to the US congress.
Read MoreSeth Lazar gave the second annual Mala and Solomon Kamm lecture in Ethics, at the Safra Center for Ethics, at Harvard University, on April 7, 2022. This prestigious lecture series was endowed by the brilliant philosopher Frances Kamm, professor at Rutgers University, in honour of her parents. It is a particular honour for Seth to give this lecture, due to the great debt his own work holds to Kamm's pathbreaking research in deontological ethics.
Read MoreSeth Lazar's chapter on 'Power and AI: Nature and Justification' is forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of AI Governance.
Read MoreClaire Benn and Seth Lazar ask what is wrong with online behavioural advertising and recommender systems, in this paper published in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
Read More