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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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 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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Seth pens an essay for the Knight First Amendment Institute on the growing need for communicative justice.
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Michael Barnes has published a new article in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Michael’s paper is entitled ‘Who Do You Speak For? And How? Online Abuse as Collective Subordinating Speech Acts’.
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Michael Barnes has published a new article in Sbisà on Speech as Action, as part of a book series Philosophers in Depth (PID). Michael’s paper is entitled ‘Presupposition and Propaganda: A Socially Extended Analysis’.
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Seth shares some lessons from a conversation with a rogue AI about what imbues humans with moral worth.
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Seth teams up with AI scientists to reply to the statement on the existential risk posed by AI for humans, suggesting that we can best avoid existential risk from AI by building robust research communities that work to mitigate better-understood risks from concrete AI systems.
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Michael Barnes has published a new article in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, as part of a special issue on Feminism, Social Justice, and Artificial Intelligence. Michael’s paper is entitled ‘Online Extremism, AI, and (Human) Content Moderation’.
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New draft ready on legitimacy, authority and the political value of explanations, due to be my keynote for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy workshop, Tucson October 2022
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