The UK government is considering the use of Large Language Models to summarise and analyse submissions during public consultations. Seth weighs in on the considerations behind such a suggestion for the Guardian.
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Seth was invited on the The Gradient podcast to discuss the risks, challenges and benefits of developing publicly-minded AI, as well as the philosophical challenges those questions pose.
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Seth was invited on the Generally Intelligent podcast to discuss issues of power, legitimacy, and the political philosophy of AI.
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Seth has completed a book chapter forthcoming with MIT Press. The book is Collaborative Intelligence: How Humans and AI are Transforming our World, edited by Arathi Sethumadhavan and Mira Lane.
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Seth was invited to deliver the Scholl Lecture at Purdue University on 3 April. Seth’s presentation focused on how we should currently respond to the kind of catastrophic risks posed by AI systems, which often dominate contemporary discourse in the normative philosophy of computing.
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Michael Barnes presented at the Second Annual Penn-Georgetown Digital Ethics Workshop. 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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On 23 March 2024 Nick Schuster presented his paper “Role-Taking Skill and Online Marginalization” (co-authored by Jenny Davis) at the American Philosophical Association's 2024 Pacific Division Meeting in Portland, Oregon.
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How should we respond to those who aim at building a technology that they acknowledge could be catastrophic? How seriously should we take the societal-scale risks of advanced AI? And, when resources and attention are limited, how should we weigh acting to reduce those risks against targeting more robustly predictable risks from AI systems?
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MINT is teaming up with the HUMANE.AI EU project, represented by PhD student Jonne Maas, to support a workshop on political philosophy and AI, to take place at Kioloa Coastal Campus in June 2024.
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MINT is teaming up with colleagues in the US to edit a special section of the Journal of Responsible Computing on Barocas, Hardt and Narayanan’s book on Fair Machine Learning: Limitations and Opportunities.
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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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