Event Details

Tuesday, January 24 | 5:00pm-6:45pm | Lecture I: Governing the Algorithmic City

Speaker: Seth Lazar, Professor, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra

Discussant: Marion Fourcade, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California-Berkeley

Wednesday, January 25 | 5:00pm-6:45pm | Lecture II: Communicative Justice and the Distribution of Attention

Speaker: Seth Lazar, Professor, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra

Discussant: Arvind Narayanan, Professor of Computer Science, Princeton

Thursday, January 26 | 10:00am-12:00pm | Discussion Seminar

Speaker: Seth Lazar, Professor, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra

Discussants:

Joshua Cohen, Faculty, Apple University; Distinguished Senior Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

Renée Jorgensen, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan

What are the Tanner Lectures?

The Tanner Lectures were established by the late American scholar, industrialist and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. The purpose of the lectures is to advance and reflect upon scholarly and scientific learning relating to human values. This intention embraces the entire range of values pertinent to the human condition, interest, behavior and aspiration. Stanford is proud to be one of the nine distinguished universities to host the Tanner Lectures.

The 2023 Tanner Lecture will be given by Seth Lazar, Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, and a Distinguished Research Fellow of the University of Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI.

Overview

A century ago, John Dewey observed that '[s]team and electricity have done more to alter the conditions under which [people] associate together than all the agencies which affected human relationships before our time'. In the last few decades, computing technologies have had a similar effect. Political philosophy's central task is to help us decide how to live together by analysing our social relations, diagnosing their failings, and articulating ideals to guide their revision. But these profound social changes have left scarcely a dent in the model of social relations that analytical political philosophers assume. These lectures make a start at fixing that mistake. Lecture 1 introduces the theoretical resources necessary for this project; Lecture 2 applies those resources to the case of communication in the digital public sphere.

This event is co-hosted by The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society.

More details can be found on our website.

Event Details

What are the Tanner Lectures?

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Tanner Lecture: AI and Human Values with Seth Lazar