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The Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) Lab has been awarded a US$480,000 grant from the Survival and Flourishing DAF (Donor Advised Fund). This gift will support research by the MINT lab into sociotechnical AI safety—the integration of multidisciplinary perspectives with technical research on mitigating direct risks caused by AI systems operating without immediate human supervision.
Read MoreAndrew Smart and colleagues presented a tutorial session at FAccT 2024 that aims to broaden the discourse around AI safety beyond alignment and existential risks, incorporating perspectives from systems safety engineering and sociotechnical labour studies while emphasising participatory approaches.
Read MoreAs AI continues to permeate every aspect of our society, the evolution of adversarial machine learning from a niche academic field to a critical component of global cyber security underscores the significance of this research.
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 was invited on the The Gradient podcast to discuss the risks, challenges and benefits of developing publicly-minded AI, as well as the philosophical challenges those questions pose.
Read MoreSeth was invited on the Generally Intelligent podcast to discuss issues of power, legitimacy, and the political philosophy of AI.
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 was invited to deliver the Scholl Lecture at Purdue University on 3 April. Seth’s presentation focused on how we should currently respond to the kind of catastrophic risks posed by AI systems, which often dominate contemporary discourse in the normative philosophy of computing.
Read MoreMichael Barnes presented at the Second Annual Penn-Georgetown Digital Ethics Workshop. The presentation (co-authored with Megan Hyska, Northwestern University) was titled “Interrogating Collective Authenticity as a Norm for Online Speech,” and it offers a critique of (relatively) new forms of content moderation on major social media platforms.
Read MoreOn 23 March 2024 Nick Schuster presented his paper “Role-Taking Skill and Online Marginalization” (co-authored by Jenny Davis) at the American Philosophical Association's 2024 Pacific Division Meeting in Portland, Oregon.
Read MoreHow should we respond to those who aim at building a technology that they acknowledge could be catastrophic? How seriously should we take the societal-scale risks of advanced AI? And, when resources and attention are limited, how should we weigh acting to reduce those risks against targeting more robustly predictable risks from AI systems?
Read MoreMINT is teaming up with the HUMANE.AI EU project, represented by PhD student Jonne Maas, to support a workshop on political philosophy and AI, to take place at Kioloa Coastal Campus in June 2024.
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