Bio
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, a fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a member of the Executive Committee of the ACM Fairness, Accountability and Transparency Conference. For AY 2024/25 he is also a Senior AI Advisor at the Knight First Amendment Institute, Columbia University. 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 and Sociotechnical AI Safety, funded by the Australian Research Council, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Insurance Australia Group, Schmidt Sciences, the Survival and Flourishing Fund, Google and OpenAI. His book, *Connected by Code: How AI Structures, and Governs, the Ways We Relate*, based on his 2023 Tanner Lecture on AI and Human Values, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. You can find him on Bluesky here. Seth also edits the Normative Philosophy of Computing newsletter.
