Bin Yu wrote:
The University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for four tenured (assistant professor) positions and one tenured (associate or full professor) position in the area of ”AI, Inequality, and Society” (AIIS). The AIIS cluster initiative brings together the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), the Department of Computer Science (CS), the Department of Sociology and Statistics, the Department of Informatics, and the Department of Law to address the myriad ways in which AI could reshape society and individual lives, exacerbate existing inequalities and create new ones, while also changing the opportunity structures and participation of individuals and groups in society.
For more information about the position, including qualifications and application materials, please visit https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04498. The application deadline is September 16, 2024. If you have any questions, please contact AIIS_search@berkeley.edu.
It’s interesting to see this kind of overlap between sociology and statistics. I can see where law school is involved. Successful applicants could work with law professors to design AI that can come up with creative justifications for torture. Someone should be able to design an AI that can do a better job than the existing law faculty at Berkeley. And it would cost less.
Seriously, this seems like an interesting opportunity, and I don’t think I’ll ever have to talk to guys who get paid to work at the University of California for their entire careers about tanks and time bombs.
P.S. Yes, yes, I know. You can take the post about Columbia and add comments about Dr. Oz, the US News stats, etc. For better or worse, institutions are often associated with failure.
