What does it mean to understand and design democratic AI? Seth Lazar introduces the methodological approach of the HMI team, and explains the goal of designing democratically legitimate machine intelligence.
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Jenny Davis launched her new book ‘How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things’ (MIT Press 2020) on November 12 2020 at the ANU. This included a panel discussion with Benjamin Hemmings and Hedda Rasan-Cooper. Click through for more information.
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Seth Lazar was recently invited to join the National Academies of Science Engineering and Mathematics Study on Responsible Computing Research: Ethics and Governance of Computing Research and its Applications committee.
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Seth Lazar joined the Templeton World Charity Foundation Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute as faculty, giving talks on the moral and political epistemology of data and AI, and the Value of Explanations.
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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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Jenny Davis was elected as incoming Chair-Elect for the Communication, Information, Technologies & Media Sociology section for the American Sociological Association
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Seth Lazar and Atoosa Kasirzadeh are invited to be ethical reviewers for NeurIPS, as the world's leading machine learning conference explores new ways to build ethical thinking into AI research.
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Mind Design III will update Haugeland's classic reader on philosophy of artificial intelligence for the modern era. It will contain a mix of classic and contemporary readings, along with a new introduction to contextualise the topic for students. Expected publication date Q1 2021.
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Seth Lazar and Will Bateman have been invited to be Gradient Institute Fellows, cementing an ongoing partnership with Australia's leading group of ethical machine learning researchers and practitioners.
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Most of the art on this website is drawn from digital artists on the Adobe Behance platform (all CC 4.0 Licence). The main background images are all from the incredibly talented Dario Veruari. We chose the images because they reflect our key themes—not just in what they represent, but in how they are made.
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Watch the video of our webinar on COVIDSafe, 4 weeks in, here. Seth Lazar chaired a discussion with some of Australia’s leading experts in public health, privacy and cybersecurity, asking not only whether the app works and whether the risks posed to privacy are proportionate and necessary, but also about the politics of vesting authority to make major decisions about public health in unaccountable tech companies.
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Chelle was recently invited to become the Women in AI Ethics (WAIE) Regional Lead for Australia. Women in AI Ethics is a global network based on Recognition, Representation, and Empowerment.
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