New 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 MoreJoin us for a special public lecture on April 26, at 6.30pm in the RSSS building lecture theatre, to launch the MINT lab. Jamie Susskind, author of Future Politics, will present the main arguments of his forthcoming book, The Digital Republic.
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 MoreMINT, in collaboration with Insurance Australia Group, the Gradient Institute, the University of Sydney and HMI has been awarded an AUD 495,000 Australian Research Council Linkage grant to study Socially Responsible Insurance in the Age of AI. The project will receive a further AUD 350,000 funding from IAG, and AUD 100,000 funding from ANU.
Read MoreSeth joined a group of European scholars to submit an application to the Schloss Dagstuhl for a five day seminar titled ‘Roadmap for Responsible Robotics’. This is a prestigious and competitive application process (success rate about 1/3), and our application was just approved!
Read MoreMichael Barnes, a philosopher presently at the Rotman Institute, University of Western Ontario, has accepted an offer to join MINT and HMI for a two-year postdoc, starting mid-2022. Michael’s position is funded by the HMI Grand Challenge.
Read MoreSeth will be heading to Oxford for a visiting fellowship for Hilary term 2023. He’ll be based in the institute for ethics in AI and the Faculty of Philosophy, from January through mid-March.
Read MoreSeth's heading to the US in April! As well as the Kamm lecture at Harvard, he'll be giving talks at CMU, Emory, and Princeton. More details to follow.
Read MoreIn March, Seth is teaching into the University of Oxford's Masters program in practical ethics, as well as delivering a lecture into the ethics module of the Next Generation AI Symposium. He will also be presenting at the Schwarz Reisman Institute's weekly seminar.
Read MoreIn February Seth lectured into the University of Memphis, Tennessee, AI Ethics course, run by David Gray, and presented a paper on Legitimacy, Authority, and the Political Value of Explanations to the Rutgers Philosophy Colloquium.
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