Professor Seth Lazar wins $1m Australian Research Council Future Fellowship Award to study the political philosophy of AI.
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A paper workshop that was co-hosted by Dr Damian Clifford RF of the HMI project at ANU, and Prof Jeannie Paterson, co-Director, CAIDE at University of Melbourne. Click through for more information or view a draft agenda here.
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In this project, we aim to link attention metrics and communication strategies to real world actions. In particular, we start by contrasting popularity and engagement of online social movements. We then link the measurements to real-world metrics of these activities, as measured by participant turnout, election outcome, legislative success, and others. Answers to these questions will empower content producers, consumers, and hosting platforms to channel attention in mutually beneficial, and socially responsible ways.
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Colin Klein (ANU), Andrew Barron (Macquarie) and Marta Halina (Cambridge) have been awarded a grant to study "The major transitions in the evolution of cognition" from the Templeton World Charity Foundation. This $1M USD grant will fund research into the major shifts in computational organisation that allowed evolving brains to process information in new ways. Researchers at the ANU, led by CI Klein, will explore the philosophical foundations of computational neuroscience.
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This impact-driven project funded by the Minderoo Foundation will produce concrete solutions (including model legislation) to regulate the use of AI by government agencies and public officials. It aims to ensure that Australia is an ‘action-leader’ in the race to ensure that AI is democratically and constitutionally legitimate.
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As humans, our skills define us. No skill is more human than the exercise of moral judgment. We are already using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automate morally-loaded decisions. In other domains of human activity, automating a task diminishes our skill at that task. Will 'moral automation' diminish our moral skill? If so, how can we mitigate that risk, and adapt AI to enable moral 'upskilling'? Our project, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, will use philosophy, social psychology, and computer science to answer these questions.
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Colin Klein and Mark Alfano began work July 2019 on a $300,000 ARC grant to investigate ‘Trust in a social and digital world’. By using the tools of social epistemology, virtue epistemology, and network science, this project will identify how individuals should distribute their trust when embedded in epistemically hostile environments.
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In this project, we aim to link attention metrics and communication strategies to real world actions. In particular, we start by contrasting popularity and engagement of online social movements. We then link the measurements to real-world metrics of these activities, as measured by participant turnout, election outcome, legislative success, and others. Answers to these questions will empower content producers, consumers, and hosting platforms to channel attention in mutually beneficial, and socially responsible ways.
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