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Michael Barnes gave a presentation for the ANU Philosophy Department Seminar Series, on 16 November 2023. 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.
Read MoreOn 11 October 2023 Nick Schuster gave a guest lecture titled "Ethics and Politics of Machine Learning" for the University of Southern Queensland's Research Masterclass Series.
Read MoreSeth pens an essay for the Knight First Amendment Institute on the growing need for communicative justice.
Read MoreSeth features on a new podcast episode about the potential risks of AI with Philosophy Bites.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreOn 18 September 2023 Nick Schuster presented his paper “Role-Taking Skill and Online Marginalization” (co-authored by Jenny Davis) at the University of Leeds.
Read MoreSeth Lazar joins the GETTING-Plurality group at Harvard University.
Read MoreNick Schuster represented MINT in organising a successful Dagstuhl seminar on responsible robotics.
Read MoreMichael 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’.
Read MoreSean 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.
Read MoreMichael 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.
Read MoreMichael 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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