Visiting Faculty: AI & society

Responsibilities

• Research proposals may focus on, but are not limited to, the following themes:
  • The economic impact of AI technologies, including on productivity, markets, and the
    structure and history of technology companies.
  • AI and society: the transformation of work in various industries (health, insurance, news, creation, entertainment, science and education, etc.) including the fairness and inequality issues machine learning-based technology may rise.
  • Digital law and governance: including regulation of AI technologies, algorithms and their use in social media, digital surveillance, rule of law and constitutional freedoms,
    challenges and opportunities of AI decision-making in government, geopolitics and global governance of AI, legal issues of generative AI productions, digitalisation of public services and governance, etc.
  • Algorithms and politics, including the impact of social media on political competition and partisanship; political communication and discourse; political participation, public
    consultations, and elections; democratic innovations; AI and the information ecosystem, including misinformation, narrative manipulation, micro-targeting, and media system transformation.
  • Technology and public participation, including measurement of public opinion online, harmful online discourse (hate speech), online social mobilization, etc.
  • Social sciences and AI: new methods and data sources for the humanities and social
    sciences including: machine learning for social sciences, in silico sociology, digital
    humanities, etc.

Skillset

• The Visiting programme is open to academics at any career stage and in any discipline. We encourage researchers from all around the globe, especially women, to apply.