Seth Lazar

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Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, where I work on the moral and political philosophy of digital technologies, especially AI. I lead the Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) Lab, and I'm on the executive committee of ACM FAccT, after being General Co-Chair in 2022 (and program chair of AAAI/ACM AIES in 2021). Writing a book on algorithmic intermediaries. Keen to support any early career folks/PhD students interested in these topics. He/Him.
About mehttps://sethlazar.xyz
MINT Labhttps://mintresearch.org
Seth LazarFeb 23, 2023
ACM FAccTFeb 23, 2023
Don't forget to submit to #FAccT2023:
- 2/24 Doctoral consortium: https://facctconference.org/2023/callfordc.html
- 2/28 Tutorials https://facctconference.org/2023/cft.html
- 3/20 CRAFT https://facctconference.org/2023/cfpcraft.html
ACM FAccT 2023 Doctoral Colloquium Call for Applications

Seth LazarJan 30, 2023
EWAFJan 30, 2023

We're now accepting submissions 🥳 Don't forget to submit your work to #EWAF2023. The deadline is February 9.

https://sites.google.com/view/ewaf23/call-for-papers

EWAF'23 - Call for Papers

Important Dates

Seth LazarJan 29, 2023
Show threadBen WaberJan 29, 2023
First was another excellent talk from @sethlazar on communicative justice at #StanfordHAI. This builds on his previous algorithmic cities talk and posits that society needs to coalesce around shared goals and processes for algorithmic intermediary governance, and some strong candidates are put forth here. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97U8BZAbJYo (2/7) #AI #algorithms
Lecture II: Communicative Justice and the Distribution of Attention

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Seth LazarJan 28, 2023
Show threadBen WaberJan 27, 2023
Next was an incredible talk by @sethlazar with insightful discussion from Marion Fourcade on the algorithmic city at #StanfordHAI. As algorithmic intermediaries grow in influence across society, how should we think about power, legitimacy, and other issues? This talk dives deep into these issues and so much more, highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzRWdpB39qw (3/6) #AI #AIEthics #algorithms
Lecture I: Governing the Algorithmic City

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Seth LazarJan 26, 2023
Lecture 2 in the AI and Human Values Tanner series, on Communicative Justice and the Distribution of Attention. Thank you to Arvind for such a rich response! One more discussion seminar to go! https://youtu.be/97U8BZAbJYo
Lecture II: Communicative Justice and the Distribution of Attention

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Seth LazarJan 25, 2023
My first Tanner lecture on AI and Human Values! 'Governing the Algorithmic City' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzRWdpB39qw (handout https://write.as/sethlazar/gtac)
Lecture I: Governing the Algorithmic City

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Seth LazarJan 25, 2023
Shannon VallorJan 25, 2023
Deadline extended to 7 Feb to apply to this new postdoc position in Edinburgh’s Dept of Philosophy, part of the UKRI Responsible AI Ecosystem programme co-led by me and Ewa Luger. Looking for an early career researcher excited to join an interdisciplinary team and work with stakeholders in AI policy, government, industry and civil society. The post is through Oct 2025; please share! https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/6111/?utm_medium=jobshare
Postdoctoral Research Assistant

The Philosophy department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Assistant on a full time, fixed term basis.

University of Edinburgh Jobs
Seth LazarJan 19, 2023

The FAccT call for tutorials is out! This is such a great way to make a first connection with the FAccT community, I really recommend it. The call is here, feel free to ask any questions https://facctconference.org/2023/cft.html

@facct @philosophy #facct #aiethics #philosophy

ACM FAccT 2023 Call for Tutorials

Seth LazarJan 19, 2023
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Seth LazarJan 18, 2023
Is the shift to longtermism in EA a function of VC culture, and what you can get if you offer people a 10000X return on their (moral) investment? Even the same emphasis on scale (community-building) over (moral) returns. Planning to write sth on 'moral inflation' soon…