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Seth Lazar

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Professor working on AI safety, governance and resilience. Now: ANU Philosophy. Soon: Johns Hopkins Government and Policy.
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The moral case for using language model agents for recommendation

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By Seth Lazar, Luke Thorburn, Tian Jin, Luca Belli
| Taylor & Francis Online
ABSTRACT Our information and communication environment has fallen short of the ideals that networked global communication might have served. Existing recommender systems very likely contribute to this shortfall. In this paper, which draws on the normative tools of philosophy of computing, informed by empirical and technical insights from computer science, we make the moral case for an alternative approach.
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AI Agents and Democratic Resilience

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By Seth Lazar, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
| knightcolumbia.org
Essays and Scholarship How AI agents might affect the realization of democratic values A project studying how advanced AI systems may harm, or help strengthen, democratic freedoms Computational progress has always been Janus-faced for democracy. The spread and networking of computing power bolster the epistemic and communicative practices on which democracies rely [30, 38, 164]. Yet the same tools are among the most sophisticated instruments of coercion and control ever devised [47, 78, 86, 166].
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Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms

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By Seth Lazar
| law.columbia.edu
On April 10-11, 2025, the Knight Institute will host a symposium to examine the risks that advanced artificial intelligence systems pose to democratic freedoms, to discuss sociotechnical as well as technical interventions to mitigate these risks, and to identify ways in which these systems may be employed to support democracy. The symposium, “Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms,” is a collaboration between the Knight Institute and the Institute’s Senior AI Advisor Seth Lazar.
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