5 papers
Artificial Persons
Ned Howells-Whitaker, Seth Lazar
Both advocates and skeptics of the moral status of AI systems have generally taken the question to turn on AI sentience. We present an alternative approach. On Rawls' political con…
Can LLMs advance democratic values?
Seth Lazar, Lorenzo Manuali
LLMs are among the most advanced tools ever devised for understanding and generating natural language. Democratic deliberation and decision-making involve, at several distinct stag…
Frontier AI Ethics: Anticipating and Evaluating the Societal Impacts of Language Model Agents
Seth Lazar
Some have criticised Generative AI Systems for replicating the familiar pathologies of already widely-deployed AI systems. Other critics highlight how they foreshadow vastly more p…
Lecture I: Governing the Algorithmic City
Seth Lazar
A century ago, John Dewey observed that '[s]team and electricity have done more to alter the conditions under which men associate together than all the agencies which affected huma…
Lecture II: Communicative Justice and the Distribution of Attention
Seth Lazar
Algorithmic intermediaries govern the digital public sphere through their architectures, amplification algorithms, and moderation practices. In doing so, they shape public communic…