Call for Micro-projects relating to Critical, Ethical, Legal, and Social AI
The fast-paced implementation of AI in various societal settings are increasingly recognized to raise important legal, ethical, and societal issues. The intersection of the technological and societal issues involved implies that understanding the societal effects of AI will benefit from both transdisciplinary approaches and wider analyses based on insights from critical theory and social sciences.
TAIGA's focus area ‘CELS-AI: Critical, Ethical, Legal and Social AI’ builds on the ELS approach to AI – the analysis of AI in light of ethical, legal, and societal values and expectations, thereby engaging in the analysis of broader societal dimensions of AI. It adds to these established approaches a particular emphasis on the critical perspective – incorporating insights from a growing body of critical research into AI and how it comes into expression in social, political, and legal processes and its potential implication.
As part of the activities of the focus area, we invite researchers at Umeå University (PhD students, post-docs, research engineers, and professors) to apply for funding for small, short projects related to the fields of interest of the focus area. Projects that involve transdisciplinary collaboration, including but not exclusively involving areas represented in TAIGA, are particularly encouraged. Projects that can expect to produce a tangible result are prioritized. Projects will be evaluated in terms of their fit to the focus area, their scientific interest, feasibility, and transdisciplinarity.
The preferred start date of the project is autumn 2023.
Total funding available amounts to kr100.000 (including overhead), which may have to be divided between more than one project. For this reason, please state in the application both the desired budget and a minimal budget for the micro-project. The funds can be used to cover research time, equipment, travel, and guest speakers.
Call for Micro-projects relating to Understanding (and explaining) AI
In science and everyday life, understanding and explaining are some of the central activities that allow us to control, direct, and predict the behaviour of natural phenomena as well as of our own creations.
Current Artificial Intelligence applications are powerful, but also somewhat mysterious and opaque, both to AI researchers themselves and to society at large. This poses pressing challenges to how we design, regulate, and use AI systems, as well as to how we engage with the potentialities and limitations of AI technology.
TAIGA's focus area 'Understanding (and explaining) AI' focuses on theoretical and practical strategies to produce and promote better understanding of AI system across different stakeholders, including the general public and policymakers.
As part of the activities of the focus area, we invite researchers at Umeå University (PhD students, post-docs, research engineers, and professors) to apply for funding for small, short projects related to the fields of interest of the focus area. Projects that involve transdisciplinary collaboration, including but not exclusively involving areas represented in TAIGA, are particularly encouraged. Projects will be evaluated in terms of their fit to the focus area, their scientific interest, feasibility, and transdisciplinarity.
The preferred start date of the project is autumn 2023.
Total funding available amounts to kr100.000 (including overhead), which may have to be divided between more than one project. For this reason, please state in the application both the desired budget and a minimal budget for the micro-project. The funds can be used to cover research time, equipment, travel, and guest speakers.
