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In a forthcoming essay in Philosophy & Public Affairs, based on his 2023 Stanford Tanner Lectures, Seth develops a model of algorithmically-mediated social relations through the concept of the "Algorithmic City," examining how this new form of intermediary power challenges traditional theories in political philosophy.
Read MoreThe AIH Lab and Hong Kong Ethics Lab co-hosted "The Philosophy of AI: Themes from Seth Lazar" workshop at HKU on January 17.
Read MoreOn December 14 Seth Lazar gave a keynote talk to the NeurIPS workshop on Pluralistic Alignment.
Read MoreSeth has been invited to give first Annual Arthur & Barbara Gianelli Lecture on The Philosophy of Science at St John’s University, in April 2025.
Read MoreOn December 14 Seth Lazar delivered a keynote talk on evaluating the ethical competence of LLMs to the NeurIPS Algorithmic Fairness through the Lens of Metrics and Evaluation workshop
Read MoreFrom December 1, 2024, to February 7, 2025 Seth will be undertaking a visting fellowship with the University of Hong Kong.
Read MoreIn this paper, Alan Chan, Kevin Wei, Sihao Huang, Nitarshan Rajkumar, Elija Perrier, Seth Lazar, Gillian K. Hadfield, Markus Anderljung investigate the infrastructure we need to bring about the benefits and manage the risks of AI Agents.
Read MoreSeth Lazar has been invited to give the Tanner Lectures in AI and Human Values, at Stanford, in January 2023. The lectures will be hosted by the Human-Centered AI Institute and the McCoy Centre for Ethics in Society.
Read MoreIf you are considering a pivot to AI, and want to hear ideas for how to BOTH fulfil a real social need and do great philosophy, or just want to talk through your plans, feel free to reach out to MINT.
Read MoreSeth Lazar will be traveling to the US in October, giving talks in Princeton, Cornell Tech, and Cornell.
Read MoreSeth Lazar gave the second annual Mala and Solomon Kamm lecture in Ethics, at the Safra Center for Ethics, at Harvard University, on April 7, 2022. This prestigious lecture series was endowed by the brilliant philosopher Frances Kamm, professor at Rutgers University, in honour of her parents. It is a particular honour for Seth to give this lecture, due to the great debt his own work holds to Kamm's pathbreaking research in deontological ethics.
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