We are seeking candidates currently enrolled in a PhD or MA in the humanities and social sciences to work with a small team of interdisciplinary researchers seeking to advance critical perspectives on responsible AI. Leveraging your preferred methods and approaches, you will contribute to a collaborative project aimed at contextualizing, historicizing and theorizing prevailing discourses around AI “safety”. This will include, for instance, drawing connections between discourses of safety, risk, security, trust, privacy, and transparency, or examining how safety has been mobilized in other settings. It could also entail probing the implications of safety discourses in relation to questions of race, ethnicity, class, gender, empire, etc.
Depending on your disciplinary background, you will be expected to engage in in-depth analyses of documents (e.g. archival and legal documents), white papers, research publications, databases, and/or technical artifacts (among others), and share your insights via verbal presentations and written documentations. You will also have the opportunity to co-author articles resulting from the research and findings.