UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in AI Belief and Safety

We’re in search of to nominate 3 Lecturers and three Senior Lecturers (every Full Time / 1.0 FTE, Everlasting) as a part of a brand new interdisciplinary research staff working within the broad area of AI Belief and Safety to construct on our present strengths in Digital Belief, Safety and Society. These posts kind a part of a brand new £4.73m College funding in AI Belief and Safety and can be accompanied by 6 Submit-doctoral Analysis Affiliate posts; 6 funded PhDs and new funding in excessive efficiency computing over the following 5 years. The post-holders could also be positioned in any one of many 4 Colleges of the College of Humanities and can kind a brand new cross-cutting research cluster throughout the Centre for Digital Belief and Society.

We want to appoint progressive, partaking and dynamic colleagues who will be capable to improve the standard of our teaching and research and assist drive the College’s imaginative and prescient to be a research chief in AI Belief and Safety. How can society belief AI? How can we make sure the security and robustness to exploitation of AI applied sciences? What are the boundaries to and/or enablers of belief in AI?

At UoM, we see AI security as a part of a set of broader problems with belief and trustworthiness, mistrust and belief exploitation, and trust-building and resilience, and promote an interdisciplinary strategy to those points. We wish to appoint folks from any self-discipline who can contribute to this multi-dimensional and collaborative strategy to AI Belief and Safety. This would possibly relate to:

• researching the competence, reliability, and trustworthiness of AI applied sciences
• analysing the social accountability and moral dimensions of AI and its implementation for social good
• exploring the relational and linear nature of belief relations between AI, people and organisations
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• crafting the legal, regulatory and governance panorama to make sure the integrity of AI
• interrogating the methods by which AI could be manipulated or exploited for malicious causes, whether or not for legal enterprise, similar to organised cyber frauds, or to undermine societal rules, values and processes, as we see with mis/dis/mal-information.

All such points require an understanding of the socio-technical features of AI.

Please point out in your software whether or not you might be making use of for a Lectureship or Senior Lectureship put up, and which College and self-discipline you’ll see as the most effective match to your research and teaching profile.

Candidates appointed at Senior Lecturer stage can be anticipated to tackle a better stage of accountability in relation to research and programme-related teaching, service and management roles.

What you’re going to get in return:

• Improbable market main Pension scheme
• Glorious worker health and wellbeing companies together with an Worker Help Programme
• Distinctive beginning annual depart entitlement, plus financial institution holidays
• Extra paid closure over the Christmas interval
• Native and nationwide reductions at a spread of main retailers

As an equal alternatives employer we welcome candidates from all sections of the community no matter age, intercourse, gender (or gender identification), ethnicity, incapacity, sexual orientation and transgender standing.  All appointments are made on benefit.

Our College is constructive about versatile working – yow will discover out extra right here

Hybrid working preparations could also be thought-about.

Please notice that we’re unable to answer enquiries, settle for CVs or functions from Recruitment Companies

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment companies needs to be directed to Folks.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk.

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment company can be thought-about a present.

Enquiries concerning the emptiness, shortlisting and interviews:

Identify: Chloe Jeffries

Electronic mail: chloe.jeffries@manchester.ac.uk

Common enquiries:

Electronic mail: Folks.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

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This emptiness will shut for functions at midnight on the deadline.

Please see the hyperlink beneath for the Additional Particulars doc which incorporates the particular person specification standards.