Centre for Transdisciplinary AI, TAIGA, are opening two calls for research funding related to AI, one for projects relating to critical, ethical, legal and social AI, another for projects relating to understanding and explaining AI. Apply before 30 June 2023.
Call: CELS-AI:
The fast-paced implementation of AI in various societal settings is increasingly recognized to raise important legal, ethical, and societal issues. The intersection of the technological and societal issues involved implies that understanding the societal effects of AI will benefit from both transdisciplinary approaches and wider analyses based on insights from critical theory and social sciences.
TAIGA's focus area 'CELS-AI: Critical, Ethical, Legal and Social AI' builds on the ELS approach to AI – the analysis of AI in light of ethical, legal, and societal values and expectations, thereby engaging in the analysis of broader societal dimensions of AI.
As part of the activities of the focus area, TAIGA invite researchers at Umeå University (PhD students, post-docs, research engineers, and professors) to apply for funding for small, short projects. Projects that involve transdisciplinary collaboration, including but not exclusively involving areas represented in TAIGA, are particularly encouraged. Projects that can expect to produce a tangible result are prioritized. Projects will be evaluated in terms of their fit to the focus area, their scientific interest, feasibility, and transdisciplinarity.
The preferred start date of the project is autumn 2023. Total funding available amounts to SEK 100,000 (including overhead), which may have to be divided between more than one project. Apply before 30 June 2023.
Call: Understanding and explaining AI
Current artificial intelligence applications are powerful, but also somewhat mysterious and opaque, both to AI researchers themselves and to society at large. This poses pressing challenges to how we design, regulate, and use AI systems, as well as to how we engage with the potentialities and limitations of AI technology.
TAIGA's focus area 'Understanding (and explaining) AI' focuses on theoretical and practical strategies to produce and promote better understanding of AI system across different stakeholders, including the general public and policymakers.
Also for this focus area TAIGA invites researchers at Umeå University (PhD students, post-docs, research engineers, and professors) to apply for funding for small, short projects. The preferred start date of the project is autumn 2023. Total funding available amounts to SEK 100,000 (including overhead), which may have to be divided between more than one project. Apply before 30 June 2023.
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