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

We’re searching for to nominate 3 Lecturers and three Senior Lecturers (every Full Time / 1.0 FTE, Everlasting) as a part of a brand new interdisciplinary research crew 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 Faculties of the School of Humanities and can kind a brand new cross-cutting research cluster inside the Centre for Digital Belief and Society.

We want to appoint modern, partaking and dynamic colleagues who will be capable of improve the standard of our teaching and research and assist drive the School’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 limitations 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 method to those points. We need to appoint folks from any self-discipline who can contribute to this multi-dimensional and collaborative method to AI Belief and Safety. This would possibly relate to:

• researching the competence, reliability, and trustworthiness of AI applied sciences
• analysing the social duty 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 will be manipulated or exploited for malicious causes, whether or not for legal enterprise, comparable 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 facets of AI.

Please point out in your software whether or not you’re making use of for a Lectureship or Senior Lectureship submit, and which College and self-discipline you’ll see as the very best match on your research and teaching profile.

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

What you’ll get in return:

• Improbable market main Pension scheme
• Wonderful worker health and wellbeing providers together with an Worker Help Programme
• Distinctive beginning annual depart entitlement, plus financial institution holidays
• Further 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 id), ethnicity, incapacity, sexual orientation and transgender standing.  All appointments are made on benefit.

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

Hybrid working preparations could also be thought of.

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Enquiries in regards to the emptiness, shortlisting and interviews:

Identify: Chloe Jeffries

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

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