Our Work
Seth Lazar was awarded (jointly) the ANU Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research. This is one of the university's highest honours for research excellence, and recognises Seth's contributions to philosophy, and to the leadership of the HMI Project.
Read MoreOn the shoulders of the Stanford Human-Centred AI Institute's fall conference in 2019, Seth Lazar and Stanford's Rob Reich co-convened a one-day workshop to explore the morality, law and politics of data and AI.
Read MoreTogether with Stanford's Rob Reich, Seth Lazar co-convened a session of the Human-Centred AI Institute's fall conference on AI Ethics, Policy and Governance, on 'New Directions in AI Ethics'.
Read MoreAs humans, our skills define us. No skill is more human than the exercise of moral judgment. We are already using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automate morally-loaded decisions. In other domains of human activity, automating a task diminishes our skill at that task. Will 'moral automation' diminish our moral skill? If so, how can we mitigate that risk, and adapt AI to enable moral 'upskilling'? Our project, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, will use philosophy, social psychology, and computer science to answer these questions.
Read MoreSeth Lazar presented a public talk on "AI Ethics Without Principles" to audiences from the US government NITRD Agency, the Australian Embassy, and the Human-Centered AI Institute at Stanford.
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