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Seth Lazar and the MINT lab were awarded USD50,000 to support normative philosophy of computing field-building. The funds will be used to support research workshops in Australia and overseas, such as this year’s normative philosophy of computing workshop at Kioloa Coastal Campus.
Read MoreMichael Barnes has published a new article in Sbisà on Speech as Action, as part of a book series Philosophers in Depth (PID). Michael’s paper is entitled ‘Presupposition and Propaganda: A Socially Extended Analysis’.
Read MoreSeth shares some lessons from a conversation with a rogue AI about what imbues humans with moral worth.
Read MoreMichael Barnes (along with Megan Hyska, Northwestern University) gave a Tutorial Presentation at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) on 14 June 2023, in Chicago, IL, USA. The presentation was titled ‘Theories of Propaganda and New Technology: Applications and Interventions,’ and—in the spirit of the aims of FAccT Tutorials—aimed to foster dialogue between disciplines.
Read MoreThe Philosophy of Online Communication Workshop was held at ANU on 17 May 2023. The event, sponsored by the MINT Lab, was organized by Michael Barnes and involved five presentations on philosophical issues raised by online communication.
Read MoreSeth features on a new podcast episode about effective altruism by Hi-Phi Nation.
Read MoreSeth teams up with AI scientists to reply to the statement on the existential risk posed by AI for humans, suggesting that we can best avoid existential risk from AI by building robust research communities that work to mitigate better-understood risks from concrete AI systems.
Read MoreNick Schuster provided a virtual lecture on Ethics for Artificial Intelligence for CSIRO's Next Generation Graduates Program in 2023.
Read MoreNick Schuster was interviewed by Cosmos Magazine's Petra Stock for her article "Explainer: Unethical AI and what can be done about it," published 18 April 2023.
Read MoreOn 11 April 2023 Nick Schuster presented his paper "Moral Expertise and Crowdsourcing for Machine Ethics" (co-authored by Daniel Kilov) for the Computing Ethics Group at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Read MoreOn 8 April 2023 Nick Schuster presented his paper "A Deontological Model of Moral Skill" at the American Philosophical Association's 2023 Pacific Division Meeting in San Francisco.
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