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In a new paper in Philosophical Studies MINT Lab affiliate David Thorstad critically examines the singularity hypothesis. Thorstad argues that this popular concept relies on insufficiently supported growth assumptions. The study explores the philosophical and policy implications of this critique, contributing to ongoing debates about the future trajectory of AI development.
Read MoreMINT Lab affiliate David Thorstad examines the limits of longtermism in a forthcoming paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. The study introduces "swamping axiological strong longtermism" and identifies factors that may restrict its applicability.
Read MoreA new paper by Andrew Smart and Atoosa Kasirzadeh in AI & Society titled "Beyond Model Interpretability: Socio-Structural Explanations in Machine Learning" explores the importance of social context in explaining machine learning outputs.
Read MoreWith former acting White House Office of Science and Technology Policy director, Alondra Nelson, Seth argued against a narrow technical approach to AI safety, calling instead for more work to be done on sociotechnical AI safety, that situates the risks posed by AI as a technical system in the context of the broader sociotechnical systems of which they are part.
Read MoreSeth presented a tutorial on the rise of Language Model Agents at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), a computer science conference with a cross-disciplinary focus that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.
Read MoreSeth 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.
Read MoreSeth Lazar and lead author Nick Schuster published a paper on algorithmic recommendation in Philosophical Studies.
Read MoreSeth Lazar aand former White House policy advisor Alex Pascal, assess democracy’s prospects in a world with AGI, in Tech Policy Press
Read MoreThe 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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