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Assistant professor in Responsible and Ethical AI
Deadline: Monday 15 June 2020In 2019, the University of Amsterdam established a new Research Priority Area Human(e) AI, which synthesises ongoing work and stimulates new research at the UvA on the societal consequences of the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) in a wide variety of societal areas.
The position is placed within the Department of Philosophy in the capacity group Logic and Language and the candidate’s research will be part of the Institute for Language, Logic and Computation (ILLC) within the Faculty of Humanities. The ILLC enhances curiosity-driven research and serves as a rallying point for information scientists across traditional research fields.
For more information, see here or at https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/vacancies/2020/05/20-275-assistant-professor-in-responsible-and-ethical-ai.html or contact prof. Sonja Smets at S.J.L.Smets at uva.nl.
ILLC Events this week
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28 May 2020, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Chenwei Shi
Speaker: Chenwei Shi (Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Beijing)Title: Logic of Convex Order (Joint work with Yang Sun)Date: Thursday 28 May 2020
Location: OnlineFor more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2020/05/lira-session-online-only-chenwei-shi/.