This 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 MoreACM FAccT happening June 21-24, MINTies and friends have played a big role in bringing it together. All now just hoping that neither covid nor WWIII gets in the way…
Read MoreSeth will give a keynote lecture at the 10th Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Workshop, in Tucson Arizona, in October 2022.
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 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.
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