Do you want to become part of a dynamic community that is at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Heritage?

Our experts from the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC) and the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory, and Material Culture (AHM) are looking for four talented and ambitious PhD candidates. Your research will be part of the Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities unit of the ILLC (Projects 1-3) or the Digital Heritage research group of the AHM (Project 4).

Are you looking for a PhD position in a dynamic setting? Do you want to execute philosophy of science research informed by and engaging scientific practices? The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) (https://www.illc.uva.nl/) currently has a vacant PhD position for a talented student as part of the project Benchmarking scientific explanation in psychological practice, led by principal investigator Dr. Dingmar van Eck. The ILLC is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research.

We are pleased to announce that Tobias Blanke has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant, to work on Deep Culture - Living with Difference in the Age of Deep Learning (Deep Culture).

Much recent work seeks to evaluate values and opinions in large language models (LLMs), motivated by concerns around real-world LLM applications. For example, politically-biased LLMs may subtly influence society when they are used by millions of people. Such real-world concerns, however, stand in stark contrast to the artificiality of current evaluations using multiple-choice surveys and questionnaires: real users do not ask LLMs survey questions. In my talk, I will present recent work in which we challenge the prevailing constrained evaluation paradigm for values and opinions in LLMs. I will also outline the steps we are now taking to build more realistic unconstrained evaluations for political values and opinions in LLMs.