Seth Lazar

Twitter: @sethlazar

Seth Lazar

Principal Investigator

Seth Lazar is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, and a Distinguished Research Fellow of the University of Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI. He is also an incoming non-resident fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has worked on the ethics of war, self-defence, and risk, and now leads the Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) Lab, where he researches sociotechnical AI safety and the moral and political philosophy of AI, leading projects funded by the ARC, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, Google, OpenAI and Insurance Australia Group. He is a member of the executive committee for the ACM Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency conference, and was General Chair in 2022, and Program Co-Chair for the ACM/AAAI AI, Ethics and Society conference in 2021, and is one of the authors of a study by the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, which reported to Congress on the ethics and governance of responsible computing research. He has given the Mala and Solomon Kamm lecture in Ethics at Harvard University, and his 2023 Tanner Lecture on AI and Human Values at Stanford University is now forthcoming with Oxford University Press as Connected by Code: How AI Structures, and Governs, the Ways We Relate..

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