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Seth Lazar is a Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University (ANU) and holds multiple distinguished roles: Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI, Fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Senior AI Advisor to the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. He founded the Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) Lab, focusing on philosophy of computing and AI safety.
His research bridges ethics, technology, and governance, addressing societal impacts of AI, algorithmic governance, and communicative justice. Recent work explores AI's role in democracy, attention distribution, and economic systems. Lazar regularly contributes to public discourse through media interviews and op-eds, such as his Guardian article questioning AI's role in public policymaking.
Lazar leads interdisciplinary projects via the MINT Lab and collaborates with institutions like Yale Law School on normative philosophy of computing. He delivers high-profile lectures (e.g., Scholl Lecture at Purdue) and organizes workshops on AI ethics and democratic freedoms. His work emphasizes proactive evaluation of emerging AI technologies to anticipate risks and align them with ethical goals.
