Researcher Profile

  • Professor of Philosophy at ANU

  • Moral and political philosophy of computational systems, ethics of risk, ethics of war and self-defence

  • Moral and political philosophy of computational systems, ethics of risk, ethics of war and self-defence

  • Books

    2016 Sparing Civilians. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Articles

    2009 'Responsibility, Risk, and Killing in Self-Defense', Ethics, 119/4, 699-728

    2010 'The Responsibility Dilemma for Killing in War: A Review Essay', Philosophy & Public Affairs, 38/2, 180-213

    2012 'Necessity in Self-Defense and War', Philosophy & Public Affairs, 40/1, 3-44

    2015 'Risky Killing and the Ethics of War', Ethics, 126/1, 91-117

    2016 'Authorization and the Morality of War', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 94/2, 211-226

    2017 'Deontological Decision Theory and Agent-Centred Options', Ethics, 127/3, 579-609

    2018 'Limited Aggregation and Risk', Philosophy & Public Affairs, 46/2, 117-159

    2019 'Axiological Absolutism and Risk' (with Chad Lee-Stronach), Noûs, 53/1, 97-113

    2021 'What's Wrong with Automated Influence', with Claire Benn, Canadian Journal of Philosophy

  • Online Behaviour And Profiling; Disinformation And Social Cohesion; Radicalisation And Extremism; Social, Cognitive, Ethical and Legal Aspects Of Big Data And AIML


  • Twitter Handle     @sethlazar
    Email Address seth.lazar@anu.edu.au

 

Seth Lazar

Overview

Seth Lazar is a Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, director of the Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) lab, and a Chief Investigator of the Humanising Machine Intelligence project, a multidisciplinary research initiative on the morality, law and politics of data and AI. He is an editor of the journal Philosophers' Imprint and was Program Co-Chair for the AAAI/ACM AI, Ethics and Society Conference 2021, and is General Co-Chair for the ACM Fairness, Accountability and Transparency Conference 2022. His work focuses on machine intelligence and normative theory, spanning moral and political philosophy, and is supported by major grants from the Australian Research Council and the Templeton World Charity Foundation. He is a member of a 15-person study committee of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, reporting to the US Congress on the ethics and governance of responsible computing research.