Taming the Terminator: Law, ethics and artificial intelligence

Seth Lazar is a Professor in the School of Philosophy at the ANU, lead CI on the ARC grant'Ethics and Risk', director of a Templeton World Charity Foundation project on'Moral Skill and Artificial Intelligence', and project leader of the major interdisciplinary research project: Humanising Machine Intelligence. In 2019, he was awarded the ANU Vice Chancellor's award for excellence in research. A central focus of his early work on the ethics of war was the necessity of taking an approach more grounded in political philosophy than in moral philosophy--the same redirection is necessary for work on the morality, law and politics of data and AI. He is also an Area Editor at Ergo, an editor of Philosophers' Imprint, and on the editorial board of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy.