Seth Lazar
Seth Lazar is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He leads the 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Lazar won the Frank Chapman Sharp Prize in 2011 "for the best unpublished monograph on the philosophy of war and peace".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.
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 Future Fellowship for the proposal "Automatic Authorities: Charting a Course for Legitimate AI.".
He gave the at Stanford University.
Books
- Sparing Civilians, Oxford University Press, 2015
- The Morality of Defensive War,, Oxford University Press, 2014
- Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War,, Oxford University Press, 2018