Together with Aaron Snoswell, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, and Daniel Kilov, Seth Lazar has been awarded USD50,000 to support work on developing a “moral conscience” for AI agents. The grant will start in April 2024, and run for 9-10 months.
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Our special issue of Philosophical Studies on Normative Theory and AI is now live. A couple more papers remain to come, but in the meantime you can find eight new papers on AI and normative theory here:
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Seth Lazar and lead author Nick Schuster published a paper on algorithmic recommendation in Philosophical Studies.
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Seth Lazar aand former White House policy advisor Alex Pascal, assess democracy’s prospects in a world with AGI, in Tech Policy Press
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The headline wasn’t representative, but this was a fun piece to write about the excellent White House OMB memo about AI use within government. Read the whole thing (not the misleading headline) here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/28/united-states-artificial-intelligence-eu-ai-washington#comments
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Nick Schuster's paper "The Skill Model: A Dilemma for Virtue Ethics" was accepted for publication in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice on 2 March 2023.
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One of the biggest tech policy debates today is about the future of AI, especially foundation models and generative AI. Should open AI models be restricted? This question is central to several policy efforts like the EU AI Act and the U.S. Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI.
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Sean Donahue organized the Legitimacy Beyond the State workshop. The aim of the workshop was to advance philosophical research on legitimacy as a normative concept that can apply to non-profit organizations, international corporations, interest groups, and other non-state institutions.
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MINT, together with ADM+S, held a stellar workshop on normative philosophy of computing at the Kioloa Coastal Campus, with papers from Jeff Howard, Rachel Sterken and Eliot Michaelson, Jenny Judge, Sina Fazelpour, Sarita Rosenstock, Luise Mueller, Megan Hyska and Raphael Milliere.
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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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