Job alert!

We’re hiring – AI Now is growing the team with new roles in policy and operations.

Help us find our next Associate Director and Operations Director: ainowinstitute.org/careers-2

🔔‼️Publication alert‼️🔔 This week, Chris Morten Salome Viljoen and I released our paper 'Researcher Access to Social Media Data: Lessons from Clinical Trial Data Sharing' in Berkeley Technology Law Journal!

Couldn't be more excited for this paper to be out in the world.

New report launched today, “MyCity, INC: A Case against ‘CompStat Urbanism”, highlights concerns about the potential for technology to expand policing & embed corporate entanglements into digital public infrastructure
🔗 surveillanceresistancelab.org/resources/myci…

AI industrial policies increasingly shape the relationship of govts to the AI industry, committing public $ to R&D and procurement.

Today, we publish “AI Nationalism(s)”: an essay collection surveying this consequential wave of global policymaking: ainowinstitute.org/ai-nationalisms

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We are also hiring Data Scientists!

boards.greenhouse.io/blueroseresear…

I’m recruiting a postdoc, 3 yrs funded, on System Design and Governance for AI systems, focusing on safety and justice issues, building bridges between technical, policy and critical scholarship. Please share with relevant early career colleagues! 🙏🏼

I’m on the academic & industry job market! I work on reliable & efficient measurement in large-scale ML, publish in both ML + law/policy venues.

I’ll be at NeurIPS next week, please drop me a note if you’d like to meet up!

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a reminder that I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall 2024 at Brown CS, and applications are due Dec. 15 :) If you're interested in participatory ML, public agency & accountability, identity representations & intersectionality, or related areas - consider applying!

I'm excited that my book Silicon Valley Imperialism is coming out soon, and it turns out that there are a few more days to preorder it for half off with the 50% coupon CYBER23.
dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley…
Also so grateful to include the amazing Alex Horghidan's artwork on the cover!

Job alert: Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy is hiring emerging scholars who have Bachelor’s degrees for 2-year positions in tech policy. It's an unusual program that combines classes, 1-on-1 mentoring, and work experience with real-world impact. Apply by Jan 12. Details: citp.princeton.edu/programs/citp-…

📢 At Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy we are hiring a professor in the area of tech & society. It's an open rank search — assistant, associate, or full — through the engineering school. Apply by Dec 1 for full consideration puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…
Current faculty: citp.princeton.edu/people/filters… 🧵

It's hard to take AI company claims about 'safety' and 'responsibility' seriously when stories like this keep coming.

This is a repeat of tech ethics - the companies talk a big game but abandon principles the second they're inconvenient for business.

theintercept.com/2023/11/06/cru…

Applying to the @UMSI PhD program? Current PhD students want to help underrepresented applicants with our UMSI PhD Application Feedback Program.

📅 Materials accepted until 11/15.
🔗 Link to participate: bit.ly/UMSI-PhD-Feedb…

I'm on the academic job market!

I'm a PhD student at Harvard University, where I develop and deploy AI decision-making techniques for planetary health.

My research enables practitioners to take efficient, robust actions necessary in these high-stakes, low-data settings.

✨I'm on the job market

I work on human-centered and participatory AI, mostly around digital mental health and public algorithms

I'm especially interested in postdocs, nonprofits, LACs, & small universities. But I'm not picky - I just want to keep doing good work w good people!

Deadline coming up soon (OCT 15): come work with us - School of Information @esc we are hiring in Racial Justice and Technology (open rank). This job is part of a wonderful cluster hire that aims to foster connections across critical computing, the humanities, and policy si.umich.edu/people/faculty…

City of Detroit Data Strategy & Analytics is hiring to help scale up our Base Units work. Apply if you love geospatial data & democracy!

Business Analyst/ Manager
GIS Analyst (2 positions)
Data Analyst

We are very delighted to kick off this year with a talk by Morgan Klaus Scheuerman from the University of Colorado Boulder. The talk will be held at 11:30AM on Monday (9/25) at NQ 2255. Please join us in-person or watch live on Zoom!

*Three* faculty searches here Cornell Information Science!

In Ithaca, in human-AI interaction, esp. builders/designers: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25656

In NYC, in ethics/law/policy, incl. technical approaches: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25657

In Ithaca, lecturers in any area: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25658

Just three weeks left to submit to our cross-disciplinary workshop on carceral AI at Center for PhilSci in Feb 2024! Stoked to have Megan Stevenson, Shakeer Rahman, Pablo Nunes & Gabbrielle M Johnson speaking.

Please share widely! Researchers from all backgrounds are welcome. Submissions due Sept 30.