On 22 September 2023 Nick Schuster presented his paper “Moral Expertise, Reasonable Pluralism, and Crowdsourcing for Machine Ethics” (co-authored by Daniel Kilov) for the Formalising Responsibility Workshop at the University of Manchester.
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On 18 September 2023 Nick Schuster presented his paper “Role-Taking Skill and Online Marginalization” (co-authored by Jenny Davis) at the University of Leeds.
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Seth Lazar joins the GETTING-Plurality group at Harvard University.
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Nick Schuster represented MINT in organising a successful Dagstuhl seminar on responsible robotics.
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Michael Barnes has published a new article in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Michael’s paper is entitled ‘Who Do You Speak For? And How? Online Abuse as Collective Subordinating Speech Acts’.
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Sean Donahue travelled to the International Political Science Association World Congress in Buenos Aires to present his paper ‘AI Rule and a Fundamental Objection to Epistocracy’ as part of a panel on AI Ethics, organized by the University of Bristol’s Johnathan Floyd.
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Michael Barnes participated in ChatRegs23: AI Policy Workshop, on 19 July 2023. This workshop, organized by Bec Johnson of the University of Sydney, aimed to bring together a wide range of people researching the risks and ethical impacts of AI, as well as those working on how we can responsibly adopt these technologies into Australia.
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Michael Barnes gave a presentation for the Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) Annual Conference. The talk, titled ‘Speech Acts on Social Media: Algorithms, Amplifiers, and Affordances,’ is part of a larger project that aims to update speech act theory for online communication, and then apply it to help make sense of various afflictions of our online lives.
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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.
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Michael 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’.
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Seth shares some lessons from a conversation with a rogue AI about what imbues humans with moral worth.
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Michael 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.
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