Professor Seth Lazar
Professor Seth LAZAR
Professor of Philosophy
Australian National University
Seth Lazar is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, a Distinguished Research Fellow of the University of Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI, and a member of the Executive Committee of the ACM Fairness, Accountability and Transparency Conference. He has worked and published widely on the ethics of war, risk, and AI, and now leads the Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) Lab, where he leads research projects in normative philosophy of computing, funded by the ARC, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Insurance Australia Group, and AI2050.
He is one of the authors of a 2022 US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine study on Responsible Computing Research. He is currently preparing for publication his 2023 Tanner Lecture on AI and Human Values. His recent work can be found at linktr.ee/sethlazar.