Seth Lazar (born 1979) is an Australian philosopher and Professor of

Philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

. He leads th
Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory
Lab. Lazar won the Frank Chapman Sharp Prize in 2011 "for the best unpublished monograph on the philosophy of war and peace". He is known for his research on

defensive war A defensive war () is one of the causes that justify war by the criteria of the Just War tradition. It means a war where at least one nation is mainly trying to defend itself from another, as opposed to a war where both sides are trying to invade ...

. Lazar's recent work has focused on "the morality, law, and politics of AI", with a particular focus on "the political philosophy of data and AI." In 2021, Lazar was awarded an

Australian Research Council The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the primary non-medical research funding agency of the Australian Government, distributing more than in grants each year. The Council was established by the ''Australian Research Council Act 2001'', ...

Future Fellowship for the proposal "Automatic Authorities: Charting a Course for Legitimate AI.". He gave th
2023 Tanner Lecture on AI and Human Values
at Stanford University.

Books

* ''Sparing Civilians'', Oxford University Press, 2015 * ''The Morality of Defensive War'', (Co-Editor, with Fabre, C), Oxford University Press, 2014 * ''Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War'', (Co-Editor, with Helen Frowe), Oxford University Press, 2018

References

External links

Seth Lazar at the ANUSeth Lazar's Personal Website
21st-century Australian philosophers Analytic philosophers British political philosophers British philosophy academics Living people Academic staff of the Australian National University 1979 births Alumni of the University of Oxford {{Australia-academic-bio-stub