Seth contributed to the Singapore Conference on AI with many other AI policy experts, designing and writing question 6: How do we elicit the values and norms to which we wish to align AI systems, and implement them?
Read MoreSeth 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
Read MoreMichael Barnes is part of a team that receives HMI Computing for Social Good Seed Research Grant. The project, titled ‘Privacy Preserving Perception in Robotics,’ seeks to ensure that robots that enter public spaces are trained to avoid capturing sensitive information.
Read MoreSeth teamed up with Tino Cuéllar, the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to host a one-day workshop on AI and democracy, featuring legal scholars and political scientists, as well as policy-makers and AI researchers.
Read MoreSeth presented work at the Plurality Institute Summit, hosted by Danielle Allen at Harvard
Read MoreRecent progress in LLMs has caused an upsurge in public attention to the field of AI safety, and growing research interest in the technical methods that can be used to align LLMs to human values. At this pivotal time, it is crucial to ensure that AI safety is not restricted to a narrowly technical approach, and instead also incorporates a more critical, sociotechnical agenda that considers the broader societal systems of which AI is always a part. This workshop brought together some of the leading practitioners of this approach to crystallize it and support further integration into both research and practice.
Read MoreMichael Barnes gave a presentation for the ANU Philosophy Department Seminar Series, on 16 November 2023. The talk, titled ‘Speech Acts on Social Media: Algorithms, Amplifiers, and Affordances,’ is part of a larger project that aims to update speech act theory for online communication, and then apply it to help make sense of various afflictions of our online lives.
Read MoreOn 11 October 2023 Nick Schuster gave a guest lecture titled "Ethics and Politics of Machine Learning" for the University of Southern Queensland's Research Masterclass Series.
Read MoreSeth pens an essay for the Knight First Amendment Institute on the growing need for communicative justice.
Read MoreSeth features on a new podcast episode about the potential risks of AI with Philosophy Bites.
Read MoreOn 22 September 2023 Nick Schuster presented his paper “Moral Expertise, Reasonable Pluralism, and Crowdsourcing for Machine Ethics” (co-authored by Daniel Kilov) for the Formalising Responsibility Workshop at the University of Manchester.
Read MoreOn 18 September 2023 Nick Schuster presented his paper “Role-Taking Skill and Online Marginalization” (co-authored by Jenny Davis) at the University of Leeds.
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