Our Work
Seth Lazar was a co-author on a report by a study committee of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, Fostering Computing Research: Foundations and Practices. This report was commissioned by the NSF and is to be presented to the US congress.
Read MoreJoin us for a special public lecture on April 26, at 6.30pm in the RSSS building lecture theatre, to launch the MINT lab. Jamie Susskind, author of Future Politics, will present the main arguments of his forthcoming book, The Digital Republic.
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.
Read MoreMINT, in collaboration with Insurance Australia Group, the Gradient Institute, the University of Sydney and HMI has been awarded an AUD 495,000 Australian Research Council Linkage grant to study Socially Responsible Insurance in the Age of AI. The project will receive a further AUD 350,000 funding from IAG, and AUD 100,000 funding from ANU.
Read MoreSeth joined a group of European scholars to submit an application to the Schloss Dagstuhl for a five day seminar titled ‘Roadmap for Responsible Robotics’. This is a prestigious and competitive application process (success rate about 1/3), and our application was just approved!
Read MoreMichael Barnes, a philosopher presently at the Rotman Institute, University of Western Ontario, has accepted an offer to join MINT and HMI for a two-year postdoc, starting mid-2022. Michael’s position is funded by the HMI Grand Challenge.
Read MoreSeth will be heading to Oxford for a visiting fellowship for Hilary term 2023. He’ll be based in the institute for ethics in AI and the Faculty of Philosophy, from January through mid-March.
Read MoreSeth's heading to the US in April! As well as the Kamm lecture at Harvard, he'll be giving talks at CMU, Emory, and Princeton. More details to follow.
Read MoreIn March, Seth is teaching into the University of Oxford's Masters program in practical ethics, as well as delivering a lecture into the ethics module of the Next Generation AI Symposium. He will also be presenting at the Schwarz Reisman Institute's weekly seminar.
Read MoreIn February Seth lectured into the University of Memphis, Tennessee, AI Ethics course, run by David Gray, and presented a paper on Legitimacy, Authority, and the Political Value of Explanations to the Rutgers Philosophy Colloquium.
Read MoreSeth Lazar's chapter on 'Power and AI: Nature and Justification' is forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of AI Governance.
Read MoreSeth Lazar and Christian Barry's co-authored paper, Supererogation and Optimisation, has been accepted for publication by the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. The paper explores principles that might underpin either the demand for altruistic efficiency, or the denial of any such demand.
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