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        Date: 2019-08-20 07:49:39+00:00
        From: Anna Zielinska 
        Subject: Postdoctoral fellowship – Ethics and AI, Université de Lorraine  (extended deadline: Sept 1, 2019)


JOB OFFER – Extended deadline

Postdoctoral fellowship – Ethics and AI, Université de Lorraine

We are currently recruiting a 12-month postdoctoral fellow to work with
Anna Zielinska, Cyrille Imbert, and Christophe Cerisara on a project at
the crossroads of ethics, epistemology and AI.

We are looking for candidates that are interested in issues pertaining
to the legal, ethical, and computational dimension of Big Data
analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. Candidates
from all disciplines are welcome, above and beyond candidates having a
background in applied ethics, epistemology or philosophy of science and
relevant interests.

The position is opened as soon as Autumn 2019 (and should start no later
than October 2020).
Extended application deadline: September 1, 2019.

Submission. We invite research proposals (2 pages maximum) relevant to
the fields of investigation listed below, coming from candidates
interested in the legal, ethical, and technical analysis of Big Data
analytics and AI (all disciplines are welcome). Research proposals may
for example deal with topics such as:

- algorithms and bias: ethical & political issues
- IA, data collection and protection of personal and private data,
especially in the French context of data collection about ethnicity and
religious beliefs.
- political issues with regards to the social and political control of
AI algorithms
- ethical and epistemological implications of epistemic opacity and loss
of direct epistemic control in IA
- IA algorithms and responsibility
- decision-making on the basis of IA data & opaque algorithms

We are interested in discussions and strategies that should be adopted
in this context by developers, users, policy makers.

PROFILE

To be successful, applicants should fulfill the following conditions:

- doctoral degree/PhD degree in philosophy, broadly construed or another
relevant discipline (including computer science, but the candidate
should then provide strong evidence of her/his ability to discuss
relevant questions in ethics and philosophy)
- documented research interests and relevant expertise
- letter of motivation
- two papers
- excellent command of written and spoken English. Although not
required, knowledge of French is considered an asset.

Salary: depending on the previous experience of the candidate, the net
monthly salary will be between 1600 and 2200 euros in accordance with
the Université de Lorraine rules.

LOCAL CONTEXT

- Research environment. This post-doc project is offered in the context
of the research project OLKi, which develops researches pertaining to
knowledge engineering and its social dimension. Its main objectives are
to propose novel approaches to study linguistically and extract
knowledge automatically from natural language data and to analyze how
such results are used by citizens and scientists. The question of the
openness and transparency of the algorithms and how it can benefit
citizens and democratic societies is at the core of the project. The
post-doc is expected to contribute to the activities of this vibrant
community.

For more information see:
http://lue.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/open-language-and-knowledge-citizens-olki
[1]

- Affiliation. The postdoc fellow will be jointly affiliated to Archives
Poincaré (AHP, history of science and philosophy) and LORIA (computer
science) which are part of the OLKi consortium and jointly analyse the
normative challenges of digital science and AI by and for citizens. The
Archives Poincaré has a strong tradition of research in digital
humanities, philosophy of logic and computer science and philosophy of
computational science. The postdoc fellow is expected to interact with
researchers from both institutions, who have mutual interest and
complementary skills.

- The postdoctoral fellow will work and interact with Anna Zielinska
(lecturer and PhD in philosophy, MA in legal theory and a BSc in
psychology, research interests:  metaethics, applied ethics, legal and
political philosophy), Cyrille Imbert (CNRS researcher, general
philosophy of science, philosophy of computational science) and
Christophe Cerisara (CNRS researcher, AI, with a strong interest in
ethical issues related to IA, OLKi project leader)

The postdoc is expected to contribute to the organization of a seminar
on issues at the crossroads of philosophy and informatics (twice a
month), to the organization of 6 lectures on the topic of IA & ethics as
well as to activities related to the development of a charter of ethics
for the OLKi project. Finally, the postdoc will help to set up short
teaching modules targeted at different audiences, typically engineers
and students in HSS in order to prepare them to include the challenges
raised by AI in their professional life. These tools should be developed
in English.

For further information, please contact Cyrille Imbert and Anna
Zielinska (cyrille.imbert@univ-lorraine.fr &
anna.zielinska@univ-lorraine.fr).

To apply, please send your research proposal, your CV, your letter of
motivation and selected publications to Aurore Coince,  Cyrille Imbert,
and Anna Zielinska ( aurore.coince@univ-lorraine.fr,
cyrille.imbert@univ-lorraine.fr, anna.zielinska@univ-lorraine.fr).


Links:
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[1]
http://lue.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/open-language-and-knowledge-citizens-olki




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