In A Nutshell
Sciences Po’s Open Institute for Digital Transformations seeks two visiting faculty positions for up to a semester-long stay (13 weeks minimum) for the 2025-2026 academic year.
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.
- The economic impact of AI technologies, including on productivity, markets, and the
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.