Seth Lazar

Seth Lazar (born 1979) is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He leads the [https://mintresearch.org Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory] Lab.

Lazar won the Frank Chapman Sharp Prize in 2011 "for the best unpublished monograph on the philosophy of war and peace". He is known for his research on defensive war.

Lazar's recent work has focused on "the morality, law, and politics of AI", with a particular focus on "the political philosophy of data and AI." In 2021, Lazar was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship for the proposal "Automatic Authorities: Charting a Course for Legitimate AI.".

He gave the [https://hai.stanford.edu/events/tanner-lecture-ai-and-human-values-seth-lazar 2023 Tanner Lecture on AI and Human Values] at Stanford University. Provided by Wikipedia