In this QuantumBlack Australia virtual Meetup, the ethics of artificial intelligence was discussed with the Gradient Institute and HMI. Click through for more information.
Read MoreA virtual workshop on Trust and Safety that was held on the 2nd of June 2020. This was a joint event with the Trusted Autonomous Systems Defence Cooperative Research Centre, Data61, and 3AI. Click through for more information.
Read MoreAnthony Asher, Adam Druissi, Seth Lazar, and Tiberio Caetano presented the online seminar ‘Data Ethics — A Virtual Session’ on the 13th of October 2020. Click through for more information.
Read MoreSeth Lazar was invited to be on the Academic Board's Data Governance Working Group, with the remit to consider the university's principles and policies around data protection, in particular in relation to the data generated by members of the university as they use its services (digital and otherwise).
Read MoreThis paper is a collaboration between HMI, IAG and Gradient, and reflects our broader concern that new methods that use machine learning to influence risk predictions to determine insurance premiums won't be able to distinguish between risks the costs of which people should bear themselves, and those that should be redistributed across the broader population, and might also involve using data points that it is intrinsically wrong to use for this purpose.
Read MoreShould we use large-scale facial recognition systems? This article in The Conversation distinguishes between facial recognition and face surveillance and argues that we should demand a moratorium on face surveillance.
Read MoreSeth Lazar joined the Templeton World Charity Foundation Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute as faculty, giving talks on the moral and political epistemology of data and AI, and the Value of Explanations.
Read MoreChristian Barry and Seth Lazar consider what justifies requiring some people to bear costs for the sake of others, in the public health response to COVID-19.
Read MoreThis article, in US magazine Barron's, explores how to think about the privacy risks of app-based contact-tracing in the age of big data, arguing that even if tech companies choose wisely and justly, the 'laws' of their operating systems cannot be legitimate. Democratic institutions are the only means we've discovered to legitimate the use of power in complex social systems.
Read MoreSeth Lazar and Colin Klein question the value of basing design decisions for autonomous vehicles on massive online gamified surveys. Sometimes the size of big data can't make up for what it omits.
Read MoreIn this article, co-authored with epidemiologist Meru Sheel, Seth Lazar questions whether tech companies or democratically-elected governments should decide how to weigh privacy against public health, when fundamental rights are not at stake.
Read MoreClaire Benn and Seth Lazar recorded an interview with Rashna Farrukh for the Philosopher’s Zone podcast on Radio National. The theme: moral skill and artificial intelligence. Does the automation of moral labour threaten to diminish our capacity for moral judgment, much as automation in other areas has negatively impacted human skill?
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