MINT Lab’s Seth Lazar and PhD student Jake Stone have published a new paper in Noûs on the site of predictive justice.
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Seth has published a new paper in the Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy on the connections between authority, legitimacy and the democratic duties of explanation.
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Seth Lazar’s Tanner lectures on AI and Human Values are now forthcoming, alongside commentaries by Renée Jorgensen, Marion Fourcade, Arvind Narayanan and Joshua Cohen and a reply by Seth, with Oxford University Press (actually the USA one, not the UK one as pictures).
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Michael Barnes presented at the Oxford-Berlin Colloquium on Normative Philosophy of Computing. The presentation (co-authored with Megan Hyska, Northwestern University) was titled “Interrogating Collective Authenticity as a Norm for Online Speech,” and it offers a critique of (relatively) new forms of content moderation on major social media platforms.
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Seth contributed to the Singapore Conference on AI with many other AI policy experts, designing and writing question 6: How do we elicit the values and norms to which we wish to align AI systems, and implement them?
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Seth joined Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor in investigating the limitations of techniques for model alignment. Read more here: https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/model-alignment-protects-against
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Michael Barnes is part of a team that receives HMI Computing for Social Good Seed Research Grant. The project, titled ‘Privacy Preserving Perception in Robotics,’ seeks to ensure that robots that enter public spaces are trained to avoid capturing sensitive information.
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Seth teamed up with Tino Cuéllar, the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to host a one-day workshop on AI and democracy, featuring legal scholars and political scientists, as well as policy-makers and AI researchers.
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Seth presented work at the Plurality Institute Summit, hosted by Danielle Allen at Harvard
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Recent progress in LLMs has caused an upsurge in public attention to the field of AI safety, and growing research interest in the technical methods that can be used to align LLMs to human values. At this pivotal time, it is crucial to ensure that AI safety is not restricted to a narrowly technical approach, and instead also incorporates a more critical, sociotechnical agenda that considers the broader societal systems of which AI is always a part. This workshop brought together some of the leading practitioners of this approach to crystallize it and support further integration into both research and practice.
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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.
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