The ANU Law & Philosophy Forum is delighted to announce its fifth meeting in 2023: Dr Pamela Robinson (ANU School of Philosophy) will present her work-in-progress on “The Hard Problem of Value Alignment”. 

All are welcome to attend.

In recent years, AI ethicists and safety engineers have drawn attention to the problem of designing powerful AI systems that behave in accordance with good values. In this talk, Dr Robinson will discuss a harder problem: that of having a good proof that this is so. She will argue that it is both more important and more difficult to solve this problem.

This session will be held in person at the ANU College of Law, in the Philippa Weeks Library, room 7.4.1 (Level 4). For those who are unable to attend in person, there is a Zoom option, and the Zoom details are accessible upon registration. 

About the speaker

Dr Pamela Robinson is a postdoctoral research fellow in the ANU School of Philosophy. She works on value theory and the philosophy of artificial intelligence, with particular interests in normative uncertainty and AI safety.

We look forward to hosting Dr Robinson at the Forum, and hope you will be able to attend. 

About the ANU Law and Philosophy Forum

The ANU Law and Philosophy Forum is an interdisciplinary group focused on issues spanning law and philosophy.

Its core purpose is to promote research, discussion, and exchanges on various topics in law and philosophy, covering aspects of both private law and public law, and issues within both legal and political philosophy.

The Forum hosts guest speakers, holds workshops, and discusses recent scholarship of note in the field. Meetings are open to faculty members and research students from the College of Law and the School of Philosophy, and friends and colleagues of both.