The deadline for all calls are 1 May 2024 at 23:59 CET.
Supervisor: Rune Nyrup
The Centre for Science Studies, Aarhus University, is looking to appoint PhD-candidate within the field of interdisciplinary ethics and epistemology of artificial intelligence (AI), available from 1 August 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is advertised as part of the project TREAT - Towards Responsible Explainable AI Technologies, hosted at the Centre for Science studies.
TREAT examines the ethics and epistemology of Explainable AI (XAI), that is, technologies for generating explanations of AI systems. The project aims to develop a normative framework for distinguishing beneficial from pernicious uses of XAI.
The PhD-candidate will conduct philosophical research on XAI and contribute to the organization of workshops and other project activities. Their research will contribute to the work package “Explanatory Honesty”. Since explanations are always partial and idealised, there is a risk that XAI-generated explanations create a false or misleading sense of understanding. This work package will examine the boundary between helpful, understanding-supportive explanations and deceptive or manipulative uses of XAI. The PhD-candidate will also develop a case study on the use of XAI within one of the following domains of application: commercial online platforms, legal decision-support, and smart home devices for elderly care.
The PhD-candidate will be free to shape their research agenda and approach to these questions in accordance with their broader interests and career plans. The various tasks of the position are organized in continuous agreement with the project leader, associate professor Rune Nyrup, who will also be the primary PhD-supervisor.
TREAT is an interdisciplinary project with collaborators in machine learning, human-computer interaction, law and nursing research, including locally in Aarhus and at the Institute of Technology and Humanity and the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London, and the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. There is funding available in the project for the PhD-candidate to conduct a research visit abroad in order to collaborate with researchers at one or more of these institutions.
Earliest start date: 1 August 2024
Funding: DFF
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Supervisor: Alexandra-Iulia Otiman ( Cristiano Spotti )
The PhD position is within the area of complex differential geometry. The research will be oriented in a broad sense towards the investigation of analytic, cohomological and metric properties of complex manifolds and their interplay. A special attention will be given to particular metrics in complex geometry (e.g. pluriclosed, balanced and locally conformally Kähler) and the project will make use of tools from neighbouring fields such as algebraic geometry and topology. The successful candidate will be a member of the project "Conformal geometry: metrics and cohomology" and will benefit from being part of a very active complex geometry group at Aarhus University.
Earliest start date: 1 August 2024
Funding: DFF
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