Seth Lazar

According to our database, Seth Lazar authored at least 23 papers between 2021 and 2026.

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2026

Blind Refusal: Language Models Refuse to Help Users Evade Unjust, Absurd, and Illegitimate Rules.

Cameron Pattison, Lorenzo Manuali, Seth Lazar

CoRR, April, 2026

Using LLMs to Enhance Democracy.

Seth Lazar, Lorenzo Manuali

Minds Mach., March, 2026

Legal Alignment for Safe and Ethical AI.

Noam Kolt, Nicholas Caputo, Jack Boeglin, Cullen O'Keefe, Rishi Bommasani, Stephen Casper, Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Noah Feldman, Iason Gabriel, Gillian K. Hadfield, Lewis Hammond, Peter Henderson, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Seth Lazar, Anka Reuel, Kevin Wei, Jonathan Zittrain

CoRR, January, 2026

Beyond Verdicts: Evaluating Language Model Moral Competence.

Aaron J. Snoswell, Daniel Kilov, Seth Lazar

Proceedings of the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026

2025

Resource Rational Contractualism Should Guide AI Alignment.

Sydney Levine, Matija Franklin, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Secil Yanik Guyot, Lionel Wong, Daniel Kilov, Yejin Choi, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Noah D. Goodman, Seth Lazar, Iason Gabriel

CoRR, June, 2025

Discerning What Matters: A Multi-Dimensional Assessment of Moral Competence in LLMs.

Daniel Kilov, Caroline Hendy, Secil Yanik Guyot, Aaron J. Snoswell, Seth Lazar

CoRR, June, 2025

Military AI Cyber Agents (MAICAs) Constitute a Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure.

Timothy Dubber, Seth Lazar

CoRR, June, 2025

Resist Platform-Controlled AI Agents and Champion User-Centric Agent Advocates.

Sayash Kapoor, Noam Kolt, Seth Lazar

CoRR, May, 2025

Infrastructure for AI Agents.

Alan Chan, Kevin Wei, Sihao Huang, Nitarshan Rajkumar, Elija Perrier, Seth Lazar, Gillian K. Hadfield, Markus Anderljung

Trans. Mach. Learn. Res., 2025

Position: Build Agent Advocates, Not Platform Agents.

Sayash Kapoor, Noam Kolt, Seth Lazar

Proceedings of the Forty-second International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025

2024

Lecture I: Governing the Algorithmic City.

Seth Lazar

CoRR, 2024

Lecture II: Communicative Justice and the Distribution of Attention.

Seth Lazar

CoRR, 2024

The Moral Case for Using Language Model Agents for Recommendation.

Seth Lazar, Luke Thorburn, Tian Jin, Luca Belli

CoRR, 2024

Can LLMs advance democratic values?

Seth Lazar, Lorenzo Manuali

CoRR, 2024

Frontier AI Ethics: Anticipating and Evaluating the Societal Impacts of Generative Agents.

Seth Lazar

CoRR, 2024

Automatic Authorities: Power and AI.

Seth Lazar

CoRR, 2024

On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models.

Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Kevin Klyman, Shayne Longpre, Ashwin Ramaswami, Peter Cihon, Aspen K. Hopkins, Kevin Bankston, Stella Biderman, Miranda Bogen, Rumman Chowdhury, Alex Engler, Peter Henderson, Yacine Jernite, Seth Lazar, Stefano Maffulli, Alondra Nelson, Joelle Pineau, Aviya Skowron, Dawn Song, Victor Storchan, Daniel Zhang, Daniel E. Ho, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan

CoRR, 2024

Position: On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models.

Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Kevin Klyman, Shayne Longpre, Ashwin Ramaswami, Peter Cihon, Aspen K. Hopkins, Kevin Bankston, Stella Biderman, Miranda Bogen, Rumman Chowdhury, Alex Engler, Peter Henderson, Yacine Jernite, Seth Lazar, Stefano Maffulli, Alondra Nelson, Joelle Pineau, Aviya Skowron, Dawn Song, Victor Storchan, Daniel Zhang, Daniel E. Ho, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan

Proceedings of the Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024

2023

On the Site of Predictive Justice.

Seth Lazar, Jake Stone

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2023

2022

Legitimacy, Authority, and the Political Value of Explanations.

Seth Lazar

CoRR, 2022

2021

Deontological decision theory and lesser-evil options.

Seth Lazar, Peter A. Graham

Synth., 2021

Trust and Safety.

S. Kate Devitt, Rachel Horne, Zena Assaad, Ellen Broad, Hanna Kurniawati, Beth Cardier, Andrew Scott, Seth Lazar, Maia Gould, Chelle Adamson, Charles Karl, Frank Schrever, Sue Keay, Kieran Tranter, Evan Shellshear, Dan Hunter, Mark Brady, Tom Putland

CoRR, 2021

Platform Power and AI: The Case of Content.

Seth Lazar, Taina Bucher, Aleksandra Korolova, Cailin O'Connor, Nicolas Suzor

Proceedings of the AIES '21: AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, 2021