Department of Engineering, West Cambridge
An exciting opportunity exists for a Research Assistant / Associate to work on the project: "Advancing ethically informed socio-technical safety of AI systems in the public sector". This project investigates how local authorities in the UK can be equipped to effectively govern the integration of socio-technical ethical and safety principles into the deployment of AI systems for urban-scale decisions. (Funding: EPSRC through the AI Safety Institute).
Key responsibilities and duties comprise: developing the research vision into executable tasks to achieve the project's aim through mixed (quantitative and qualitative) methods; developing findings into a socio-technical governance framework; producing high-quality research and industry-facing outputs; building and maintaining strategic networks; and coordinating research activities (e.g. survey design and roll-out, hosting workshops).